They could sell it on *b*y - "minor crack doesn't affect image quality" !
...Wayne
>
> 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=mediu
> m>
> > *
> >
> >
> > 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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