iiiNelson
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You're forgetting the Samyang and Zeiss Loxia lenses... Not autofocus but native lenses nonetheless. I don't know that Panasonic nor Olympus had 14 lenses combined in Micro 4/3 within the first year.According to Sony's homepage, there are 7 FE lenses available now of which 2 are primes. Any mirrorless camera can use adapted lenses. As for strategy, which one are you talking about? The Alpha strategy, the NEX strategy or the FE strategy?
Sony's past isn't very long ago. They came up with a usable, although nothing near complete, lens lineup for the Alphas, partly because they inherited Minolta's designs. They don't seem to develop new lenses for Alpha, SLT or whatever it's called nowadays. Correct me if I'm wrong.
After nearly 5 years, the NEX or E lens lineup is rather mediocre with a few shining exceptions. Will there be more lenses for E?
For FE, they have a roadmap and 7 lenses. Even for the unloved Nikon 1 there are 13 lenses currently available.
So far, Sony have shown what Sony always show: Premium technology in a fun package.
As for strategy there is only the Alpha strategy now. I won't pretend that it's perfect because it's not. There's the A and (F)E mount - to which all of the E mount lenses can also be used in crop mode. There's the A mount lenses that offer AF and FF coverage. Yes there's still room to grow and yes there are gaps but we are talking about a system that is a year old.
If you're counting the APS-C E-mount lenses then they have the bulk of the gaps covered as well. There's not much I'm interested in in the crop system but it's not really made for me either.