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Krogoth wrote:Kodak didn't catch onto the digital photography bandwagon until it was too late.
Krogoth wrote:I believe the other photo giants are having similar aches as well (Olympus).
Krogoth wrote:Kodak didn't catch onto the digital photography bandwagon until it was too late.
Krogoth wrote:I believe the other photo giants are having similar aches as well (Olympus).
axeman wrote:Wow, this seems incredible. I don't feel sentimental about it, but this is one heckuva icon to bite the dust, although I'm sure the brand name has some value, so I'm sure at the least someone else will buy the rights to the name.
just brew it! wrote:I actually hope that *doesn't* happen. Look at what happened to Memorex -- they were once a household name too (though not as big as Kodak), and now they are pretty much synonymous with "cheap re-branded crap".
Captain Ned wrote:just brew it! wrote:I actually hope that *doesn't* happen. Look at what happened to Memorex -- they were once a household name too (though not as big as Kodak), and now they are pretty much synonymous with "cheap re-branded crap".
just brew it! wrote:I actually hope that *doesn't* happen. Look at what happened to Memorex -- they were once a household name too (though not as big as Kodak), and now they are pretty much synonymous with "cheap re-branded crap".
liquidsquid wrote:It has been a long slope of treating employees as assets instead to become treating them as a liability.
axeman wrote:I didn't say I am excited about the prospect, either. What I really meant is it's probably inevitable the brand will live on, in fact that really irritates me as well. Like Compaq living on on bargain basement HP laptops, ugh.
thegleek wrote:I guess you could say Lady Gaga got lucky in joining Polaroid over Kodak! lol
Glorious wrote:R :cough: P
Vrock wrote:I was never really impressed with Kodak's digital cameras. They were adequate, I guess, for point-and-shoot stuff, but it seemed to me there were better options available for the same amount of money.
just brew it! wrote:Olympus used to make some of the better digital cams back in the early 2000's, IIRC. We have a Canon now and have been pleased with it.Vrock wrote:I was never really impressed with Kodak's digital cameras. They were adequate, I guess, for point-and-shoot stuff, but it seemed to me there were better options available for the same amount of money.
They can't possibly have sucked more than the Olympus FE-25 I picked up a few years back.
(Have a Canon now... much better!)