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0 pointsStableAlkyne1y ago0 comments

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.

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TylerE1y ago· 1 in thread

Remember, Teams was originally "Skype for Business".

GrzegorzWidla1y ago

Originally it was Office Communicator, then Lync, then Skype for Business and now Teams.

rchaud1y ago

Kodak 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.

kevin_thibedeau1y ago

Digital cameras were mostly useless in the 80s and early 90s for rank and file consumers. The demand wasn't there.

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