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Originally Posted by Ervserver
Sony has been in business a long time.......my thought is they know something
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Sony loses a fistfull of money regularly in a lot of markets they dabble in. It's a pattern. They keep afloat mainly because they are so big and have such a diverse business. Also, of course, because of the Playstation and their many media businesses.
With the notable exception of the Playstation, really, the last time they dominated the U.S market in anything (
hardware based, I mean... their media businesses are something else entirely) was probably back with the original Walkman. Since then they've had some good but hardly dominant products (the CD versions of the Walkman, their line of PDAs during the CLie days, their Vaio computer line) but also a lot of total bombs.
I mean honestly... do many people use a Sony Memory Stick if they can help it? Or one of their proprietary music players? Or choose a Sony Ericcson phone if another brand is available for a similar pricepoint? And their cameras and videorecorder sales are pretty far down too. Even their TV sales are down somewhat.
They still make a lot of money in parts and components though. Winning the whole BlueRay/HD DVD thing probably was a nice leg up for them, so they're hardly in trouble.
They might stick with eReaders out of stubborness, or they might completely ditch it. Hard to say. But them "knowing something" because they've been in business a long time? Yeah... they know to diversify--that has little to do with their success in any one product line.