Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Has anybody made money in digital? Aren't they still in the stage of accepting losses to ensure future market place? These cameras cost a fortune to develop (except for the digital M of course) and you can't give them away after a year. John Collier On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 07:31 PM, Afterswift@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 9/25/03 4:46:30 PM, dorysrus@mindspring.com writes: > > << After the 96 Olympics when I worked with Kodak and saw first > hand how the very top most management was clueless, impotent to act, > and > utterly without the ability to change course came to the conclusion > that > this company was the walking dead. >> > -------------------------- > Does anyone remember when Kodak clipped Polaroid patents and had to > pay a > huge penalty to Polaroid? > The money didn't help Polaroid because they also messed up on keeping > up > with digital technology, which replaced the Land process. It's odd, > because these > larger old inertial tech companies initially had the capital to gamble > on new > technology -- they had nothing to lose by investing. But short term > profits > meant more than astute and imaginative and innovative management. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html