[rollei_list] Re: Kodak selling its film & paper divisions
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:52:13 -0400
Sam 20 years ago Kodak, who invented digital imaging and the digital
camera, decided it was a film and paper company and not an imaging company.
It abandoned it's pioneering and category-leading development of
professional digital cameras.
In contrast, Canon made the opposite decision and is doing very well as an
imaging company.
Film and paper's decline was inevitable and would always have been a drag
on a public company. Whether a heathy Kodak would have maintained the
product line for brand purposes is not knowable...
Eric Goldstein
--
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Sam B. Anson <sam.anson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> My rhetorical question is, could this have been avoided if Kodak took
> aggressive, creative action 10 years ago and adopted a new strategy?
> Sounds a lot like RIM, the Blackberry maker.
>
>
>
> Sam Anson
> From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> on behalf of Neil Purling [sextant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 2:08 PM
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Kodak selling its film & paper divisions
>
> I will believe it when Kodak announce it or I hear the rumble of George
> Eastman turning in his grave.
> We have heard too many of these stories in the past.
> I have to say that I don't regularly use Kodak. I bought Tri X 120 for
> my Holga & two cassettes of 35mm Tri X & that is it.
> I have bought Rollei, Foma Orwo & Shanghai.
> ---
> Rollei List
>
> - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe'
> in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org
>
> - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
> 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org
>
> - Online, searchable archives are available at
> //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
> This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. No
> confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by erroneous transmission of
> this message. If you received this message in error, please immediately
> delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of
> it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or
> distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly prohibited.
> ---
> Rollei List
>
> - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe'
> in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org
>
> - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
> 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org
>
> - Online, searchable archives are available at
> //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
>
>
Other related posts:
