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And Yet Another Little Polaroid-Apple Connection

By On 6 August 2012 · Leave a Comment

This one even less meaningful than the last, but hey. It turns out that the recently cleared Polaroid site in Waltham, soon to be a shopping center, may contain… an Apple Store. It’s not a done deal yet (see the local report and its caveats here) but it certainly would be a story […]

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Another Little Polaroid-Apple Connection

By On 5 August 2012 · 2 Comments

My father reported this story over the weekend: A friend was traveling by car, pulled out her iPad while in the passenger seat, and switched it on. Black screen. Flicked it off and on again. No display. Kept fiddling, and eventually resigned herself to a busted device. Until she knocked her sunglasses ajar, and the […]

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Forbes columnist: “Is Apple the Next Polaroid?”

By On 2 February 2012 · Leave a Comment

Over at Forbes, Martin Sosnoff, a money manager who started watching Polaroid in 1961, explains here why APPL probably is not about to follow PRD down the drain, despite that provocative headline. All the same, he suggests that Apple ought to be paying a dividend, and that it needs to generally be paying more […]

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Steve Jobs and Edwin Land

By On 20 January 2012 · 5 Comments

I’ve written before about the powerful resonances between Steve Jobs’s Apple and Edwin Land’s Polaroid. You can read that story here, in the New York Times. But shortly after that op-ed ran, I found two photos that just startled me.

Here’s Land at a shareholders’ meeting, probably the one at which he […]

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