Kodak did have a near monopoly in consumer cameras though, and they could have had a monopoly in sensors too - what they could have done by leading it rather th

Kodak did have a near monopoly in consumer cameras though, and they could have had a monopoly in sensors too - what they could have done by leading it rather than playing catchup is changing how adoption worked. Had Kodak led it, we for example might print a ton more digital photography than we do now, because the charge was instead lead by Sony (in my opinion) and their early mavica - and for a long time you couldn't print digital photos onto real photo paper using a lasting process - because kodak controlled something like 70% of the processing market, they could have led the ability to print in store. As it was, high quality printing from digital didn't come until much later.