I'm afraid we'll need a lot more than glass to do this but I do think
it's coming. BTW, Corning is just a bit more than an hour west of me.
The Corning Glass Museum is well worth the trip if you're anywhere in
the area. I'm always fascinated by the first 200" mirror blank made for
the telescope on Palomar. It's hanging on the wall in the glass museum
since the first blank that was cast cracked when it was cooling.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/7/2012 2:07 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> Here's the body of an e-mail I forwarded to *my* Ken - my son who is in
> the investment field:
>
> *Sell Apple -- Buy Corning?*
>
>
> While this all seems unreal, go back 10 years or so and what were your
> thoughts about some
> of the things we have today?
>
> Wonder why HP, Dell and other leading computer manufacturers believe the
> end of the computer
> as we know it is near. It's not the iPad that has them concerned about the
> future, it is developments
> like the ones Corning is working on.
> *CLICK HERE*...*
> GLASS<http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38&vq=medium>
> *
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Ken Norton<ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> I'm surprised that this did not happen earlier given the somewhat close
>>> working relationship between the two. I was also surprised that
>> something
>>> of this sort did not take place with Kodak as the two of them teamed up
>> to
>>> make the 10MB sensor some time ago. Must be that Kodak is infiltrated
>> with
>>> managers who earlier worked for Motorola.
>>
>> Agreed. But one of the big problems with these companies is that
>> innovation from bottom-up is highly discouraged. The corporate culture
>> is that of conformity. Unfortunately what this means is that you do
>> whatever it is that your boss does and he is doing what his boss did
>> before him. I work for a company that is actually quite new in an old
>> industry. Just in the short time I've been with this company, it has
>> reorg'd at least twice. Every time we acquire another company the
>> whole structure shakes up again. The problem is continuity (and having
>> to reinvent the wheel each time), but the advantage is that we get a
>> fresh approach almost every year. Not necessarily a bad thing. (We've
>> been told that the entire engineering department will be reorged at
>> least every three years no matter what).
>>
>>
>>> I can see Panasonic gaining controlling interest of Olympus, keeping
>>> the name alive in the area of high-end and professional cameras and
>> medical
>>> optics while Panasonic remains with the P&S products (I wanted to say
>> toys,
>>> but I'll restrain myself).
>>
>> The company I'd be sucking up to in a big way is Samsung. Mobilization
>> (Internet enabled) of photography is the future and there are only
>> three companies that have this mobilization thing really nailed down:
>> Apple, Google and Samsung. Apple is all about Apple, but Samsung will
>> work with anybody. Google and Apple are both all about intellectual
>> property. But with this "merging" with Panasonic, this very well could
>> be the death of Olympus in the consumer-products realm as Panasonic
>> and Samsung are kinda mortal enemies.
>>
>> Sadly, I don't see this Panasonic buy in of Olympus to be a good
>> thing. I'm not saying a Fuji buy would have been any better, but as
>> Olympus has proven incompetent in being able to make the imaging
>> division profitable, it's only a matter of time before somebody shoves
>> a fork in this turkey..
>>
>> > From Panasonic's perspective, this is a smart move. They get to
>> protect the intellectual propery by keeping it out of another
>> company's hands. At this point, Panasonic has a firm grip around the
>> giblets of Olympus. But until Panasonic figures out that the P&S
>> market is dying very fast without a mobilization product, both
>> Panasonic and Olympus will end up as footnotes in the history of
>> photography.
>>
>> AG
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