Soocom1
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Your not getting what I said.. . .
legally speaking they are Sony products. NOT Minolta.
Ok, you aren't getting my point, so I'll lay it out for you:
If you buy any of these interchangeable lens cameras or lenses, you have a warranty for the particular item. Even that much might not be truly a legal contract with the Mfrs directly, but through a sub-contractor (the store). Beyond that, you have nothing except "good will" or "reputation" or "marketing reasons" or whatever else you want to call it. None of the companies are obligated to continue making a "system" tomorrow. Nikon, Canon, Olympus, etc., doesn't matter. You have no contract with them. All you have is what you bought.
So if Sony has continued support for A-mount all these years without need, to support people with A-mount products in the past, then good for them. They seem to have respected the wishes of Minolta buyers from years ago. That is commendable. But none of the other companies have any more reason to do so than Sony. It's that simply. We buy the "reputation" as much as the products.
So the answer to my question is: There is no difference.
Its akin to using third party parts in a Chevy. They fit and work perfectly, but are not made by the manufacturer.
There is no mystery here.
You think "Chevy" makes all the parts on the shelf in their parts department in the "GM" boxes? They don't. I don't know how many are outside contractors these days, but all you know is that GM feels they make the standard. But even that is not the same thing. Unless you have a Pro support service contract, again, for camera companies, all you have is their reputation that the next thing you buy will be of "similar quality" as what you have already bought. Call it "good will" or "reputation" or whatever you want to, it's not a contract. There is no legal obligation and there never has been. Minolta isn't Sony? So what?
You stated that "not really, sony took over minolta so minolta really didn't go away (not in so many words, but that's the jist).
You need to understand that the physical structure of the mount system was developed by Minolta and SOLD which means OWNED BY Sony.
Parts made for GM or any other OEM is a different story. Fisher bodies is NOT Chevrolet, they are Fisher Bodies.
\ Contracted through GM.
But the parts are part of the GM structure built to the GM design to GM standards and GM OWNS the rights to the design.
therefore they are GM parts.
With Sony, they bought the legal OWNERSHIP of the design and thus Minolta is NO LONGER part of the equation, they are the Sony A mount system.
Period.
go talk to a lawyer about that.