During the past decades, the names of many technical companies rose to prominence, but they soon disappeared, and no one ever heard of them, despite the glory that these companies got, except that their fate is or extinction forever or the acquisition of them from a larger dragon or still present, but they no longer have that luster The usual, and in this article we tried to diversify the specializations and not be limited to the field of computers and programming, but went beyond that to include photography, audio and communications, which of course we all had memories with, and I am certain that the reader used one of these companies ’products during his life.

Technology companies

Compaq

Founded in 1982, it was one of the largest suppliers of personal computers in the world and during the nineties it achieved huge sales, but it was a victim of what is known as the dot-com bubble, which is an economic bubble in which many technology companies in major countries made big economic leaps in the stock market, but A rapid and huge rise is matched by a sharp decline, so their shares fell at the beginning of the twenty-first century and within two years it was sold to HP in 2002, and Compaq still operates under the HP umbrella.

Kodak

Kodak is one of the brightest names in photography and anything related to photography for nearly 130 years, it is contemporary for all generations since the beginning of the spread of photography to the beginning of the current century and the reason for documenting the memories of successive generations, but the fame and spread is not everything, the lack of development in proportion to the times is one of the failures Kodak, and when digital imaging cameras began to be affordable and affordable in the early 2012s, Kodak stood idly by and continued to manufacture imaging films !, but when I finally woke up, it found itself far behind its Asian competitors, so instead of the imaging giant to invent the next huge thing, it became chasing after other companies to join With them too late, it is striking that Kodak is a company with a widespread culture among the people, and it had its clear mark in the photography industry, but its stubbornness and lack of acceptance of change made it unlike other companies. “What does this example remind you of? :) ”, until the matter came to her bankruptcy declaration in 950 before she got the kiss of life from a bank to get a loan of $ 18 million over 2012 months, but all her projects were floundering and since XNUMX until now she sells her divisions one by one and she has focused on developing printing Easily photos from smart devices, as I introduced a smartphone with great imaging capabilities, all of which were unsuccessful.

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A name that all audio enthusiasts will remember, as it was the companion for the teenage generations from the sixties to the nineties. It solved the difficult equation by providing high-quality audio devices at reasonable prices, which is the reason for its great spread. It is worth noting that it was the first company in the world to produce a portable battery-powered recorder (Boombox) in 1968 and for this The product has the greatest impact on the fame of the company, which was founded in 1951 as it was one of the first companies to invent cassette players and the first company to invent the voice recorder as well as innovate earbuds, in addition to a series of wonderful innovations that changed human lives and it remained the only competitor for a long time to the giant Sony In the field of acoustics, Iowa tried to enter different fields from acoustics, but it did not receive an echo, as it tried to enter the market of video players and mobile phones in the nineties, and in the late nineties the company began to suffer from a lack of a clear vision for the future after it was one of the companies with innovation, and the reason for this is due to competition The company with Sony, in addition to the high cost of manufacturing devices in Japan and the emergence of the Asian Tigers countries in the field of manufacturing devices with high quality and competitive prices, which are To the equation in which Iowa was built for a long time, but the winds flowed in ways that the ships did not desire, and in 2002 it succumbed to the winds of Sony and fully acquired it while keeping it as a company completely independent of Sony and in 2003 Sony restructured the company to focus on the youth category and their needs, but how to compete in The era of the iPod and for years remained in place and did not achieve the expectations, forcing Sony in the end to stop all products under the name of Iowa in 2006 while retaining the brand, which did not last long as the other, and Sony executed it permanently in 2008 to end the last chapter of the story of Iowa full Glories while maintaining the website is withdrawn to provide support to loyal customers,

Wait, the story did not end, so sometimes for each end another new beginning, 2015 was the year of the revival of the brand by a startup based in Chicago, the United States After it acquired the brand from Sony, the American company changed its name to Iowa until it launched a single product Portable headphones It works with bluetooth and has not yet appeared with new products.

 The giant companies whose products we use now on a daily basis are in our hands, will they meet the same fate?

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