alt Hacker News> Nvidia selling more GPU's at the cost of it's datacenter business is pretty close to Kodak selling digital cameras at the cost of film.
You mean they resisted the idea trying to protect their legacy business, and it ended up all but killing them?
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Danox • yesterday at 8:35 PM
Kodak, Xerox, IBM, Motorola of Schaumburg, Illinois are perfect examples of companies that did not want to upset the apple cart, another example outside tech of tech that did not want to go into the future was US Steel, and while I’m at it to a lesser extent Ford and GM are teetering since 1973…
They resisted the idea because it did kill their legacy business. Kodaks peak was 16 billion in revenue in 1996. The digital camera market will be approaching that level of value inflation adjusted around 2030.
35 years to get back to status quo. Putting a bullet in a golden goose is often considered a bad idea. Everyone is happy they are dead, but if you can't understand why they might try to keep the corpse alive you have never looked at the numbers.