With their million-selling 2005 album, "PCD," and its image-defining single "Don't Cha" -- which taunted, "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" -- the Pussycat Dolls set themselves up as sexy, assertive, stylish, independent, competitive, camera-ready and club-savvy.
The acquisition is the latest in a trend of operational integration in the industry, home to some of the world's most competitive digital camera makers.
Is it not the height of genteel hypocrisy to demand that someone who is paid above all to compete, suddenly pretend not to be competitive when the cameras go on, in order to conform to a 19th Century English gentlemen's notion of sportsmanship?
GoPro had hoped the drone would help it stay competitive as the action-camera market matures. .
And thanks to a very competitive marketplace, nearly every major camera manufacturer is hawking an affordably-priced digital SLR these days.
A high-res LCD and large ISO range are really requisite these days for a camera to be competitive, from the sub-$1000 level to around $3000, at which point specialization kind of takes over.
At $249, it's definitely competitive with other similarly specced cameras, but it's still perhaps a bit expensive for the average consumer who is only mildly interested in capturing 360 content.
