Me too - but perhaps they just try different ones until one takes off? . . . this one (FE) seems to have taken off so I imagine they'll stick with it?
Only Time Will Tell.
I remember reading an interview with some Sony Head Guru in a hifi magazine a few decades ago. Might have been The head guru actually. The only thing I remember from that interview is how he described Sony's product strategy. It was something like: Mainly, we are just fooling around, experimenting, and sometimes someone has a good idea, and if it's really good, we start making it. Most ideas never made it into production and even a large portion of those that did, ultimately failed. This was the way, again according to how I remember that interview, the Walkman was created and the reason why, for me, Walkman has always been the definition of Sony. A simple product that was developed into a zillion more or less advanced versions, but which in the end proved to be an evolutionary dead end. Interestingly, it was a dead end because Sony refused to accept MP3, the technology that replaced it. So the Walkman wasn't replaced by the Digiman or Miniman but by the iPod, in spite of Sony being the inventor of the Minidisc, a product that could have, but didn't.
While Nikon have made more or less the same product, the SLR camera, for over 50 years. constantly upgrading, updating and refining it, Sony gave up on that technology after a few attempts. Then came the NEX and the SLT and now the full frame NEX, all cameras that work well, but also cameras that are completely different in concept and nature. Sometimes, different concepts can be suitable for several existing customer groups, but often, they leave their customers behind when they jump to the next technology, although there is still a solid base for whatever came before it. If it had been developed.
The A7 II is possibly the best camera in the world right now, but there are already rumours floating around about a Sony MF mirrorless. That will be even better, and it will have new everything :lecture: