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Re:When Kodak and Polaroid went to war by treflop on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @02:29PM (#40444355)
I think the big problem was that digital technology just wasn’t good yet to bother making a digital camera. It’s not just the sensor… it’s also storage and processing and it took a few decades before digital cameras were good.

Investing in digital cameras was going to require many years of R&D with little payback. Someone like Sony could do it because they have all these other business sectors to subsidize development.

If Kodak couldn’t go into the chemical business, I’m not sure what else they could have done then.

Re:When Kodak and Polaroid went to war by woleium on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @05:50PM (#40447101)
They also had a nuclear reactor in a basement. I have no idea when that was commissioned or what research they were doing with it

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