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Some suit was probably worried about cannibalizing their Teams business (even though Skype has better name recognition and Teams has a bad reputation). It's pr
by StableAlkyne 2y ago
Some suit was probably worried about cannibalizing their Teams business (even though Skype has better name recognition and Teams has a bad reputation).
It's pretty common in the dinosaurs like Microsoft. Kodak for example had working digital cameras very early on, but didn't do anything with them because they didn't want to cannibalize their film business.
Give a suit a KPI, and they're gonna optimize for that KPI.
- TylerE 2y agoRemember, Teams was originally "Skype for Business".
- GrzegorzWidla 2y agoOriginally it was Office Communicator, then Lync, then Skype for Business and now Teams.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoDigital cameras were mostly useless in the 80s and early 90s for rank and file consumers. The demand wasn't there.
- rchaud 2y agoKodak doesn't make lenses or camera hardware, so it's possible they didn't pursue digital cameras because they'd be immediately out-competed by Sony, Canon and Nikon.