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> Kodak and digital photography: Kodak actually invented the first digital camera in 1975. But the company was so committed to its film business model that it c
by chasil 2y ago
> Kodak and digital photography: Kodak actually invented the first digital camera in 1975. But the company was so committed to its film business model that it couldn't adapt its thinking when digital technology began to take over.
The opposite of this is "knife the baby" which I first heard in a stage production of (I think) The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.
The Macintosh would far supplant the cash cow of the Apple ][ (Apple 2).
Jobs did it anyway.
This appears to contradict both confirmation bias and groupthink (mentioned in the article).
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/theater/reviews/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy-of-steve-jobs-review.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/theater/reviews/the-agony...
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/microsoft-asked-apple-to-knife-the-baby-court-2980345.php https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/microsoft-asked-appl...