Comments on: Bankrupt Kodak loses key Apple patent ruling

By: progressiveagentprovocateur

progressiveagentprovocateur — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:29:09 +0000

No, they invented the CCD. As with most American companies, they were clueless as to exploiting the technology.

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:50:55 +0000

Dern write!

By: twilightmoon

twilightmoon — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:37:11 +0000

it slowly bled to death and died. It should have been out of business and liquidated awhile ago, but it’s clung to the patent troll cash cow on IP that never belonged to the company to begin with.

By: twilightmoon

twilightmoon — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:33:15 +0000

I can only assume that is the case here. God bless these poor employees and may they find speedy reemployment with good companies.

By: vanfruniken

vanfruniken — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 06:55:16 +0000

On the subject of pension plans: in my country, contributions to a worker’s pension go to an account with a financial institution that manages pensions (hopefully well:), and are out of reach for the company, in case when it goes bankrupt. When one retires, one either receives an annuity or a lump sum from each of these pension plans.

By: BoC

BoC — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:42:04 +0000

Sidelight: Fuji Film has spent the last decade diversifying…into medical products.

What did Kodak do over the last decade?

By: kingmel

kingmel — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 01:35:04 +0000

There are probably only a few, perhaps even just one, anonymous loser responsible for most of the non-relevant political bait statements. This is just as much MDN’s fault as it is the losers, themselves. Why? Because MDN has repeatedly failed to respond to requests to allow only registered users to post to this forum.

There are other Mac forums, MDN. You can have your polititrolls. As soon as we leave, then they will leave and you will be left with nothing.

By: macdoctors

macdoctors — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:07:43 +0000

Time to pull the plug on Kodak and let it die.

By: Ralph M

Ralph M — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:59:29 +0000

By: mrfergus

mrfergus — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:46:33 +0000

I assume that X is trying to tell us that his IQ is 10. That would explain the stupidity of his posts, and be about right for a 12yr old piss ant.

By: Cubert

Cubert — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:43:25 +0000

Also, given how long it takes for a large corporation to deploy phones to their employees, you can bet that your local IT doofus isn’t going to wait until the writing is on the wall to ditch their Blackberrys. I can even foresee them doing it ahead of any planned upgrade cycle.

By: Cubert

Cubert — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:39:40 +0000

+1,000,000

By: peterblood71

peterblood71 — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:12:34 +0000

Film was a sacred cash cow for Kodak and they were caught in a situation that does not bother Apple at all and that is to obsolesce their own technology before someone else does. Of course it’s hard to make film but not as hard for others to make digital cameras so Kodak was always going to be on an uphill climb and would have had to innovate ahead of others as Apple does to keep ahead. Sadly Kodak consumer division for so long was garbage. Terrible design and poorly executed products.

By: Harold Jamison

Harold Jamison — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:58:36 +0000

Jean,

We all are growing extremely tired of your obsession with filling this comment section with incessant, mindless, and sophomoric anti-Obama rhetoric. If you can’t contribute something on topic and meaningful to these discussions, please restrain yourself from commenting. We’d all appreciate it.

By: Kenrm

Kenrm — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:46:34 +0000

Here is the “Apple QuickTake” link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake

Sorry if this double Posts, first link didn’t show up.

By: Kenrm

Kenrm — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:39:19 +0000

Apple let Kodak use it’s digital IP’s for the use and development of the Apple Camera, it was called “Apple QuickTake”.

It was one of the first digital consumer cameras on the market, Kodak seemed to think it owned Apples IP in that area, but Kodak has misrepresented itself.

Kodak never did have the development of consumer cameras until it received IP from other company’s.

A once great company is now a shadow of itself.

Here is a link if anyone would like a brief rundown on the history of that device.

By: Jean Poole

Jean Poole — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:04:27 +0000

No, the one who is screwing the USA .

By: twimoon1

twimoon1 — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:45:38 +0000

Not sure that Jobs was at Apple when they worked with Kodak on this camera, but point taken. Apple has indeed worked with many companies and has not had a pattern of stabbing partners in the back like many have done to them.

By: twimoon1

twimoon1 — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:44:06 +0000

Wow, never considered that. Very interesting. I didn’t think RIM would last 9 months, now they may not last 4 months. That could be a serious implosion of the company in a spectacularly catastrophic fashion. Wow.

Sad for the employees tho, sucks to be out of work in this economy and have your pension blown up as well.

By: Cubert

Cubert — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:31:37 +0000

Agreed. As I’ve said here before, it’s ironic that the Blackberry’s once touted feature – its email – will be its undoing. IT departments are going to start defecting en mass because they don’t want to be caught with a non-functional email client the day RIM goes under. This mass defection will speed up RIM’s demise faster than any analyst realizes.

By: Tflint

Tflint — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:58:51 +0000

Take any oppertunity to spread hate and lies.

By: Roobix

Roobix — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:45:02 +0000

It was Apple who tried to make them see the future. They even co developed a camera and some patents together. The same ones that they now sue Apple with. SJ wanted to help other companies succeed because he was once helped himself by Hewlett (or was it Packard) and never forgot it. Only thing is, everyone that SJ tried to help always stabbed him in the back…..Adobe, Google and Kodak to name a few. Even when he knew they stabbed him in the back he still tried to help them, as we can see by the last minute meeting he had with the present CEO of google.

By: qka

qka — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:28:45 +0000

Kodak invented the digital camera.

They failed to capitalize on it.

Kodak did the manufacturing of the Apple QuickTake cameras, some of the earliest consumer digital cameras on the market.

They failed to see the future.

By: qka

qka — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:26:21 +0000

By: FTB

FTB — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:24:00 +0000

Rim is next to follow IMO.

By: Cubert

Cubert — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:02:07 +0000

True, but such a sad tale of piss-poor management not being able to see the writing on the wall.

By: Huh?

Huh? — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:01:55 +0000

Saddam Hussein is already dead. Do you mean Assad?

By: Ralph M

Ralph M — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:44:52 +0000

Get a clue, X – this is a technology forum and many, many of us here are getting tired of your need to politicize every news story posted here. You obviously don’t have anything substantive to add the discussion of Kodak’s IP assets (pretty dark down there in your mom’s basement, eh?), so why don’t you STFU?

By: twilightmoon

twilightmoon — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:22:35 +0000

Considering that Kodak got its start in digital imaging with the help of Apple, I don’t feel bad that they lost this lawsuit.

Once a great company long since its useful life, it needs to finish dying so it won’t tie up resources, capital and labor that could go to more use with a living company.

By: X

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:22:17 +0000

Toast. Hussein is next.