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That would a funny merger to see, because Sony is just a huge company in terms of scope. And each division is basically independent and hates working with other divisions. Even within the same area. The gaming division, for instance, each region just can't cooperate with each other. And then they have a separate PC gaming division that sometimes (but mostly doesn't) support their gaming consoles.
Take their portable game console, the PSP. It can play music. But is the Sony music store integrated? Nope. Is there support for Sony's e-book store? Nope. But the gaming division has its own app for comic books (and its own comic book store).
Whereas Apple seems to be almost like a dictatorship/cult of personality deal, with Steve Jobs having an iron vice like grip on the company.
Beyond that, they seem to have different design philosophies. Games, for instance. Anyone with $100 can make a game for the iDevice. For PS3/PSP you need to spend several thousand dollars on a dev kit, then you have to go through a lengthy approval process, and need to get your games rated by ESRB/PEGI/etc.
Sony is also fairly cozy with Google...
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