Polaroid Is Dead.

[UNTflyer]

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/...id.2074eca.html

Not related to UNT in any way, but as a business major I find the death of a company that has gone the way of the buggy whip to be fascinating. Some day, we will all tell our grandkids about polaroids.

[UNTFan23]

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/...id.2074eca.html

Not related to UNT in any way, but as a business major I find the death of a company that has gone the way of the buggy whip to be fascinating. Some day, we will all tell our grandkids about polaroids.

The company isn't dead ... yet ... but it seems they are struggling to catch up to the digital age. Kodak on the other hand, has made the transition nicely and has been attacking the print media sector pretty hard.

[Coffee and TV]

Well who needs Polaroids when all your dirty pictures can be developed digitally on your home computer?

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

--The company may not be dead but is struggling and the the technology that made the company famous is now an antique. They have to go in a different direction in other to survive.

[FirefightnRick]

Wow, what a horrible result from a lack of vision and foresight? You have to think that at one point, maybe around '92 or '93 they had the money and technilogical inroads to research and advance into the digital age?

Sad for lots of employees.

Rick

[UNTflyer]

Clearly nobody over at Polaroid has ever heard of a SWOT analysis.

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

---Guess none of the execs attended my classes... LOL... I am always saying that "the world you are born into is not the world that will exist when you die" ....also "if you really want to get rich , figure out where the world is going and get there first (Bill Gates did)" .

---Even for those of us on this board, think what exists now that was not available when we were kids in the first grade. Someone made a fortune making these items. Even more extreme is the fact that my great-uncle was alive and fairly healthy when I graduated from high school (he was about 97 but only 78 when I was born) ... He was born in the final year of the Civil War ...... meanwhile my sons are computer/software engineers. The world is changing and rapidly, you have to adjust or be left behind.

Edited February 11, 2008 by SCREAMING EAGLE-66