Kodak suffered an even more catastrophic collapse than Polaroid for not keeping up with technology trends-I think it was one of the fifty for a while...
Indeed it was, David! Kodak was utterly destroyed in spite of having (basically) everything needed to turn the digital revolution on. Of course, they didn't want the revolution to happen at all!
Polaroid at least got a boost when they got mentioned by Outkast in “Hey Ya!” (“Shake it like a Polaroid picture!”). Whereas the most notable Kodak reference song, Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, was made while the company was still a going concern (and they threatened to sue him)…
Brings home to me how the broader economy changes individual lives dramatically.
Thank God those unpredictable and unstable days are over and today we can rely on the stock market to reliably go up without major swings.
This time, it's differently similar!
Kodak suffered an even more catastrophic collapse than Polaroid for not keeping up with technology trends-I think it was one of the fifty for a while...
Indeed it was, David! Kodak was utterly destroyed in spite of having (basically) everything needed to turn the digital revolution on. Of course, they didn't want the revolution to happen at all!
Polaroid at least got a boost when they got mentioned by Outkast in “Hey Ya!” (“Shake it like a Polaroid picture!”). Whereas the most notable Kodak reference song, Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, was made while the company was still a going concern (and they threatened to sue him)…
You know, I was singing and humming that song all day before I read your comment. I even put it on so someone else could hear it!
That Outkast song is a true banger.