Post #6605

In 2007 Kodak had 145,000 employees and owned photography.. By 2012 they filed for bankruptcy.. not because cameras disappeared.. but because the camera moved into a phone and Kodak refused to follow it. In 2012 Blockbuster had 9,000 stores. They laughed at Netflix's DVD-by-mail model. By the time they understood streaming it was already too late. The last store is now a tourist attraction in Oregon. The pattern is always the same, the ones who built the old thing can't imagine the new thing replacing it until it already has. Right now creators are watching AI video tools and saying "it's not good enough yet", the same sentence Kodak said about phone cameras in 2008. The same sentence Blockbuster said about streaming in 2009. It was never about whether it was good enough, it was about whether you started early enough to be ready when it was. @aipost🏴