{"id":473,"date":"2008-02-10T13:33:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T12:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2008-02-10T13:33:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T12:33:31","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"End of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was inevitable that the voracious march of consumer technology would lead to casualties, though I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/business\/mheyidkfkfid\/\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> has been something of a slow-bleeder.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Polaroid is dropping the technology it pioneered long before digital photography rendered instant film obsolete to all but a few nostalgia buffs.<\/p>\n<p>The firm is closing factories in Massachusetts, Mexico and the Netherlands and cutting 450 jobs as the brand synonymous with instant images focuses on ventures such as a portable printers for images from mobile phones and digital cameras, televisions and DVD players.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The company, which once employed 21,000 people,  had (stupidly) believed it didn&#8217;t have to embrace digital technology, thinking traditionalists would stick with the old-school tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was inevitable that the voracious march of consumer technology would lead to casualties, though I think this one has been something of a slow-bleeder. Polaroid is dropping the technology it pioneered long before digital photography rendered instant film obsolete to all but a few nostalgia buffs. The firm is closing factories in Massachusetts, Mexico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}