>>4337709>Ideally dumbass gearfags like you will meme that it's dead, it'll go out of business, and the prices will nosedive.It's not dead, but JIP has no interest in investing into the brand and actually developing new shit.
JIP was the fall guys for when SONY decided it didn't want to deal with laptops anymore, and shifted VAIO onto them. Do you know of anyone who uses a VAIO laptop these days? Oh sure, VAIO still exists as a brand, but it's managed decline.
JIP recently completed its hostile takeover of Toshiba. I remember using Toshiba laptops, watching Toshiba TVs and Toshiba DVD players and VHS machines.
Now? Toshiba makes nuclear reactors, medical X-ray scanners, Li-Ion batteries, surface to air missiles and freight locomotives. That is a brand which is also in managed decline. It won't ever die off completely, but the days of Toshiba, Vaio and now OM being desirable brands are gone.
In part, it would have been kinder if Olympus simply sold its camera division off to some other Japanese conglomerate, like OKI, WACOM, NEC, OMRON, KYOCERA, BROTHER or heck... sell to a joint venture of a bunch of them.
When Olympus did its presentation to reassure people, it hinted at the possibility of new PEN cameras, or exciting new lenses. Neither have materialised, beyond the pre-existing R&D.
