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dougdonohoe | 6 months ago

"Doomed from the start" for a 133 year old company seems a bit hyperbolic. They have lasted 13 decades and counting. How many other company started in the 1890s are still around today?

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woofcat|6 months ago

I'm presuming they were trying to say "Doomed from the start of the digital revolution"

ghaff|6 months ago

One can come up with plenty of criticisms of Kodak. But they did sell off their chemical business when the selling was reasonably good and they did do a fair number of things that anticipated digital.

But you can't just yank out the carpet from a massive consumables business that basically underpinned a company's revenue and profits almost overnight and reasonably expect them to deal with it.

mark-r|6 months ago

Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Thanks for clarifying, and sorry for being unclear at the start.