Was there any plausible path for Kodak to have owned digital photography?
- Was there any plausible path for Kodak to have owned digital photography?
- You could argue there was no path.
- Every single part of the organization and business had been built up in a world that assumed a certain vector for gravity.
- Gravity's vector here means things like assumed cost structures.
- Digital photography tilted the world on its axis.
- It wasn't that some part of the company wasn't a fit and could be excised.
- It was that the entire company was subtly-to-significantly incorrect in that new world.
- This is one of the reasons disruptive technologies tend to create new winners and winners from the previous era tend to fail to adapt.