On SNE - Was watching 60 minutes tonight. Leslie was doing a story about their new CEO Sir Howard Stringer (yes he was knighted by the Queen herself - reminds me of Gekko and "Sir Lawrence Wilder" and his comment "a bigger pot to piss in").
Anyways company isn't doing so well and he there to turn things around (first loss in decade; non-Japanese; culture shock; layoffs and plant closings). As Leslie brought up the iPOD, he knew they dropped the ball on the music.
The problem is, being a music company themselves (of which Apple is not), he figures they spent too much time on trying to protect their music, instead of launching a good music player.
Just demonstrates how when you are so big, you are hurt in the innovation department. I amn sure of SNE split up the company, personal/home electronics; entertainment (video games) etc, they could do some serious damage (a la PS3 v. XBox 360). You know, instead of spending months to ensure their TV remotes work with the PS3, they can concentrate on making a killer machine to hurt MSFT.
As for music players, they have diddled too much with their MiniDisc SH*T - while Apple was continuing with the built in harddrive. Sure they have little MP3 players, but nothing they have done has interested me (save for the OLED technology).
We shall see.
B
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