The Cellar  

Go Back   The Cellar > Main > Technology
FAQ Community Calendar Today's Posts Search

Technology Computing, programming, science, electronics, telecommunications, etc.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 08-13-2015, 01:47 PM   #1
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
The First Kodak Digital Camera

The New York Times' 'Lens' blog has a decent story concerning Kodak's first digital camera, circa 1973.

Name:  digitalcamera.JPG
Views: 5453
Size:  79.7 KB

Kodak's First Digital Moment
__________________


These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-14-2015, 10:21 AM   #2
tw
Read? I only know how to write.
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 11,933
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gravdigr View Post
The New York Times' 'Lens' blog has a decent story concerning Kodak's first digital camera, circa 1973.
Never forget why so many thousands of American jobs were lost. Kodak was dominated by business school graduates. A digital camera would compete with their primary business - film. Rather than innovate and therefore advance mankind, these business school graduates stifled that innovation. Digital cameras were provided by more patriotic companies such as Sony, Canon, and Olympus decades later.

Who got the jobs? Patriotic Americans (with Japanese citizenship) because only they would do what defines a patriotic American - innovate. Kodak was only interested in cost controls and other lies taught in the business schools.

After film went away, one would think they learned from their mistake and innovate. Instead, Kodak went whole hog into printers. Business school graduates refused to do 3D printing; instead decided to buy into and become experts on obsolete technology - 2D printers. Since Wall Street is also full of these anti-American (anti-innovation) types, then Wall Street gleefully invested in Kodak - dominated by people who hate innovation due to a spread sheet mentality. Wall Street also promoted a reduction of the American standards of living.

Digital camera demonstrates how Kodak could have learned from their mistake. Those mistakes cannot be learned on any spread sheet. So thousands of American jobs were lost.
tw is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-25-2015, 06:47 AM   #3
nowhereman
sliding down the razor blade of life
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: just over the edge
Posts: 228
We had some Kodak processors in our lab. Service tech comes in, not long after a new CEO took over at EK and says "things are changing and not for the better". Turns out, in his "hi, i'm the new guy" letter to the employees, the words "shareholder satisfaction" (or something to that effect) figured prominently. Within a year or so, major layoffs, selling of of business units etc had begun. Heard a rumor from a former EK person that when the CEO hired in, if he got the stock price up to X he could cash out (which he did, and he did). They could have ruled the digital world and look at them now.
nowhereman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-25-2015, 09:31 AM   #4
tw
Read? I only know how to write.
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 11,933
Quote:
Originally Posted by nowhereman View Post
They could have ruled the digital world and look at them now.
He did exactly what is taught in business schools. Product is irrelevant. Only profit matter. So he stifled innovation. blamed employees, cut costs, and enriched the Central Committee of the Communist Party - Kodak top management.

Most of us are brainwashed by business schools - foolishly believe the purpose of a company is profits. Companies that prosper and therefore have profits ignore the profits and concentrate only on what matters - the product. Kodak instead went communist.
tw is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:08 PM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.