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2014-02-07 China-Japan-Koreas

Sony Cuts 5,000 Jobs, Exits PC Business and Tips $1 bn Loss

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Posted by Fred 2014-02-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Game consoles are a different story. Playstation 4 selling like gangbusters

Posted by OldSpook 2014-02-07 01:49|| 2014-02-07 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Their competition didn't do themselves much help last year when they pushed 'always have to be connected' on the new consoles and Sony opted for an open system. You'd think that MicoBorg dealing with Apple's proprietary market strategy would have figured that wasn't going to give them a dominate market share. MS quickly retreated from the position, but did a lot of damage to their market credibility.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-02-07 09:13|| 2014-02-07 09:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Never undrestood what was going on with Sony. When it came to home electronics there stuff was the best and stylish, yet the stuff in the home coputer market was mostly ugly.

Apple proved people will pay for a little style. Sony knew that, but never really tried.

That and they failed to take their mini-discs and capture the zip market, never understood what was holding them back.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-02-07 14:52|| 2014-02-07 14:52|| Front Page Top

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