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Hm, when was that? Even the Kodak Brownie from 1900 used rolls of film: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Brownie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Bro

• frosted-flakes 4y ago
  Yes, but the camera had to be opened in a darkroom and the film manually cut up and developed. I'm sure you could acquire your own film and do it yourself, but it wasn't exactly approachable. But I expect that it was primarily a technological limitation, and not meant to be a form of vendor lock-in. "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest" was Kodak's marketing slogan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Press_the_Button,_We_Do_the_Rest https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Press_the_Button,_We_Do_...
• brudgers 4y ago
  Back when George Eastman was in his prime and Kodak was a plucky startup.