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Originally Posted by ZenGum
Office printers are used to print things like meeting agendas, minutes, annual reports, contracts, things like that, which are not read passively like a novel but studied and marked with a pen.
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Decades previous paper has moved on to smart phones, electronic calendars, tablets, and products yet to be developed. Companies such as Kodak hoped to profit by reinventing old technology products. Kodak is now bankrupt and delisted from the NY Stock exchange.
FujiFilm also had Kodak's problem. So it moved from buggy whip products to new technologies. For example, flat LCD screens (new technologies) have a wider viewing angle because FujiFilm innovated. Fujifilm also shifted into high tech chemicals.
An innovative Kodak would be making 3D printers. Or tablets. Or 3D movie technology. Or advanced optics and masks necessary for producting seminconductor and MEMs devices. Not possible in many American companies (not just Kodak) with a buggy whip mentality. As a result, America now another problem. A shortage of people with technical abilities necessary to innovate.
NY Times discusses a larger problem created by so many big American companies with Kodak’s attitude. Apple management defines the problem with examples.