To: oh8eleven
Faulting Kodak for not getting into the digital CAMERA business is like faulting Ford for not making boats and airplanes.
Transparencies (film, slides, and reproduction), chemistry, paper, this was their trade. They did make cameras but it was to push the repeat business of processing.
They SHOULD have pushed digital publishing as Blurb and others have done. Rather than compete with dozens of camera manufacturers (each line of which is obsolete technology withing 2 years), they could have been pushing products for the tens of thousands of photos each person is now shooting. MILLIONS of images.
To: a fool in paradise
Faulting Kodak for not getting into the digital CAMERA business is like faulting Ford for not making boats and airplanes.
They made some serious $100,000 copiers back in the '80s. Apple is an all-in-one solution, Kodak might have been as well.
21 posted on
10/01/2013 8:34:15 AM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
(There's no salvation in politics.)
To: a fool in paradise
Actually, Ford did make planes. Ever hear of the Ford Trimotor? And they did build ships for the Navy in WWI.
Your analogy would be better if you said Ford while ‘inventing’ the automobile didn’t go on to build cars. Which is basically what Kodak did, or failed to do, with digital photography.
To: a fool in paradise
They SHOULD have pushed digital publishing
Twenty (or so) years ago, CEO George Fisher had just helped Motorola to new prosperity with the cell phone as their primary product.
He was named CEO of Kodak, but I guess the idea of Kodak making their own cell phones ... with built-in digital cameras! ... never crossed his mind.
43 posted on
10/01/2013 11:09:06 AM PDT by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: a fool in paradise; oh8eleven
60 posted on
10/12/2013 1:16:34 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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