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...competition is civilized, sanitized and oddly quiet. We mutter to our friends about how so-and-so doesn’t deserve that job, office or girlfriend, when the same prize has been denied to us. We sit in coffee shops and carp about how everyone else has a summer job, or won a fellowship, and how terribly unfair...
...Kodak CEO Daniel Carp focus the future of photography for you just as sharply as he can: for all the talk about the digital revolution, the rumors about the death of film--and along with it, Kodak--have been greatly exaggerated. Sure, a growing number of shutterbugs are capturing pictures on microchips instead of silver halide. But more than 90% of us, he points out, are still happily taking shots the 19th century...
Even as more people switch to digital cameras to share and edit photos online, Carp adds, they are going to need Kodak's paper, chemicals and technical savvy to complete the picture and make great prints. And in key emerging markets like China and India, where a digital camera can cost a month's salary, film will remain king for a long time. In the U.S., single-use film cameras are flying off the shelves as never before...
...leader," says Carp, a tall, hulking, 30-year Kodak veteran and an avid hoops player who took over the helm from George Fisher more than a year ago. "You trust your memories to a brand synonymous with pictures...
...that its first-quarter net earnings were off almost 50% from the prior year. More troubling to Wall Street was that Kodak, citing the soft outlook, backed away from its previous forecasts for the second half of the year. "These are my picture takers that companies are laying off," Carp told analysts. Kodak is adding to the pile too. As part of its streamlining, the company will cut 3,000 or so jobs from an already depleted workforce. As Carp put it, "I think we're a bit in the eye of a storm...