My Dad worked for Polaroid for 40 years.He worked his heart out for that company and he was pretty well rewarded for that work.But the company started to fail a few years before he died.It broke his heart....kinda like how the guys responsible for building the WTC must have felt after 9/11.For years Polaroid bought chemicals from Kodak.They weren’t direct competitors so there was no reason not to have such a relationship.My Dad made many a trip to Rochester to meet with Kodak brass.It would break my Dad’s heart to see what’s happened to Kodak as well.
Polaroid failed because they couldn’t adapt ... their product sucked bigtime .. clarity was always poor and it deteriorated quickly ... Kodak could never innovate either ... when better film came out (agfa and Fuji) their response was to raise PRICES to give the image that they were better... when digital cameras became popular Kodak started their own line but it was always second rate at best... they’re toast... stick a fork in them they have a track record and will disappear... they’re not even the best at commercial B&W anymore , Agfa owns the X-Ray film market .. and that’s going digital as well.