Kodak was fat, dumb and happy for a long time. I was a photo hobbyist in 1975, doing darkroom work and taking tons of photos. I thought I was on top of all the developments in the photography market, but I cannot recall any publicity for the 1975 development of the first digital camera. I know they made the decision to keep quiet about it out of a desire not to cannibalize their film sales - but come on, at some point you develop it as an applied technology in parallel to film-based photography, if only to have a head-start when the shift happened. I guess that didn’t occur to them. Doh!
I’m not sure how much actual input had in the design of recent cameras, other than some gimmicks like “Easy Share”. I heard a lot of their products were made by Seagull, O.K., but not an actual Kodak factory.