This is ... somehow disturbing. Voigtländer being the only real alternative to Leica always was for me a constant factor in the RF world.
Although I never had a Bessa (but a Fuji GF670, which was one of the most beautiful cameras I ever had), I had many of their lenses. I still have two Color Skopars, 35 and 50, which I really like and prefer on the M6 over the heavy Summiluxes.
I thought about this news and for me now the step to release a lens like the VM 40 mm F 2,8 Heliar makes some sens. When it was introduced, I simply did not understand the purpose of this lens, but now it seems to me, that Voigtländer was testing new niches for the M-mount designed lenses. After the Bessas are gone, I think we will see, that some of the less popular real M-Mount lenses will go in the next few years with no new ones introduced (despite the new 15mm). Instead there will probably be more special lenses for other mounts, like Sony or µFT.
I don't think, Voigtländer will ever produce a a digital RF. Development is too expensive, when they need to start from zero. Although I'm the biggest fan of the R-D1, which was living in a Bessa-Body but made by Epson, I really doubt, that there will be ever again such a camera. Digital RF is Leica, nothing else (I don't believe in the Konost).
IMHO in the long run, film RFs will either mean Leica or a used one. Currently I'm not afraid of availability and repair possibilities for the next decades. True, original part will be rare at some point, but new production methods like 3D printing, which improves at amazing speed, will solve this problem, I think. 3D printing may even be the solution for new film RF, for example as open hardware (like open source) made by enthusiasts.
