Polaroid, for a long time, was great at incrementally advancing the technology of instant print cameras and then viciously defending the patents. I had a Kodak (I believe it was Kodak) instant camera in the early 1980s. It was litigated out of existance by Polaroid. World history is full of instances where all of the rules changed. The dawn of digital photography was one of those and changed Polaroid from a stock to acquire into a worthless company.
It was a Kodak. I had one.
What might be cool would be to mate the digital capture with an instant print.