Agreed but my additional point is that Kodak actually did branch out beyond film, and did so pretty well from a technical POV. The problem was competing in har

Agreed but my additional point is that Kodak actually did branch out beyond film, and did so pretty well from a technical POV. The problem was competing in hardware manufacturing, which is a whole different ballgame from concentrating on just the imaging aspects of it. So they were reduced, near the end, to just being really a (decent) component supplier to other companies. But that's the wrong part of the food chain to be in.