Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak?

Re:Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak? by bostik on Monday July 18, 2016 @02:03AM (#12113437)

There was another one: "made in Hong Kong".

I remember seeing that in various things, ever since my father pointed it out. It was common enough to exist in daily lingo.

Most of the time it was a synonym for cheap knock-offs.

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Re:Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak? by smcl on Monday July 18, 2016 @03:17AM (#12113619)

I also remember seeing "Made in Macau" on the bottom of little toy cars I played with when I was a kid, as well as other cheap toys and things. Bit of a contrast to today where Macau is the Vegas of the east

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Re:Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak? by dredmorbius on Monday July 18, 2016 @03:20AM (#12113627)

Macau didn't seem to be a big player relatively:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=made+in+China%...

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Re:Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak? by grkvlt on Monday July 18, 2016 @03:03PM (#12117356)

Macau has been the Vegas of the East (or, the Monte Carlo of the East) for a long time - Portugal made gambling legal there in 1850 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_Macau

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