Here's the news of the original announcement from Polaroid - as brought to us by Punthe.

A couple of weeks a guy was in front of me at CVS buying their last 3 packs of Polaroid film. For what he paid, he could have gotten a decent digital camera or a decent film camera. I haven't seen the point of Polaroid since the advance of digital photography and 1 hour developing. Either of those mediums is a better quality alternative, IMHO

D@mn double post!

I think Polaroid is about he instant gratification. Most of the digital photos we take end up on our computers and will never be printed.
I don't remember ever owning a Polaroid but if someone game me one I'd really enjoy it.

And also this update

I look at it this way: If Martians had visited Earth in the early 19th Century, before film was discovered by us, and sold us their inexpensive digital photographic technology, well then we'd never have developed a fetish or chauvinism for film. People wouldn't even miss it.

One commenter on that site spoke of "big corporations start controlling everything and telling us we can’t shoot film". That's not what this is at all. They aren't telling people they can't use film. They're just trying to stay in business by not manufacturing unprofitable product. Should we still have ice delivered to our homes?

Thanks - missed that when you posted it - I am getting slack.

And all of a sudden... Outkast's "Hey Ya" will make even less sense.

[quote]...shake it, shake it... shake it like a Polaroid picture..."