Real profits from content?. Ha. Network, google will be happy. Playstayshun, that could be a funny one to watch. OEM's Sony already outsources more than 50%. There's systemic problems at Sony's leadership that has poisoned Sony not the other way round.
Sony is bleeding money - business strategy discussion
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If you don't start contributing actual discussion instead of just regurgitating your anti-management view ad nauseum, I'm gonna forcibly eject you from the board. Present the history of Sony under Stringer and show the changes that he's brought and how they've impacted. Create a timeline showing market changes and where Sony have gone wrong, linking back to management decisions. Find some analyst reports on the value of the media content market and discuss how Sony's strategy is thus limted. Do something other than whinge mindlesesly over the state of Sony management that demonstrates you have reasoning skills and not just emotional reactions.
Whinge mindlessly over Sony management?.
Yes. Every post of yours is, "Sony's management sucks." You present no depth to your arguments nor depth to your suggestions as to what can be done about it. "Sony's management sucks. Replace Stringer and Hirai." That's the only thing you contribute to this board. We've heard it 50 times now, so if you have nothing more to add, leave it be while everyone else can look in detail at what's wrong, what options are available, how Sony compares to other Japanese CE companies, how Sony's rivals have ascended the ranks, where other avenues are or aren't for Sony - you know, actual discussion.
Yes. Every post of yours is, "Sony's management sucks." You present no depth to your arguments nor depth to your suggestions as to what can be done about it. "Sony's management sucks. Replace Stringer and Hirai." That's the only thing you contribute to this board. We've heard it 50 times now, so if you have nothing more to add, leave it be while everyone else can look in detail at what's wrong, what options are available, how Sony compares to other Japanese CE companies, how Sony's rivals have ascended the ranks, where other avenues are or aren't for Sony - you know, actual discussion.
Just because someone uses a bunch of words in their posts doesn't mean they are actually saying anything. I'm positive between this and a slew of other Sony threads that I've seen the same "all they need to do" posts by a poster and that draws no ire. Sure, I would like more discussion into "throw the bums out" because as I sit here and think, "replace them with whom?" I don't really have an idea either but I'm definitely in the management needs to (shuffle) go camp.
Now that people are paying for online and offline contents compared to the dotcom boom era, yes !
Sony *should* outsource where it makes sense. Yen is too strong now.
Yen is neutral to the dollar for Sony in there own words. The bankruptcy word is going to crop up a fair bit.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111110-715416.html
Basically Sir Howard says that for the last five years he has been reorganising Sony and restructuring them so that they can attack the consumer products market better with a new "four screen" strategy based on a unified front. The screens are TVs, Phones, Tablets and Vaio PCs. He also says 2012 will see the launch of a new style of Sony TV, they are breaking from tradition (I guess this means hello, Foxcon) and looking to be profitable after 8 years of losses. Finally he also says that the disasters in Japan and Thailand in addition to the strong Yen has cost Sony around $3bn in profits so far.
Basically Sir Howard says that for the last five years he has been reorganising Sony and restructuring them so that they can attack the consumer products market better with a new "four screen" strategy based on a unified front. The screens are TVs, Phones, Tablets and Vaio PCs. He also says 2012 will see the launch of a new style of Sony TV, they are breaking from tradition (I guess this means hello, Foxcon) and looking to be profitable after 8 years of losses. Finally he also says that the disasters in Japan and Thailand in addition to the strong Yen has cost Sony around $3bn in profits so far.
Does he say how? There's not much you can do in TVs that is traditional without going stupid - there's going to be a big screen, interface, and load of options. Perhaps what they could do is embed SonyNET and offer that to every TV purchaser as a competitor to Netflix, LoveFilm, and all the regional internet TV channels. I wouldn't really call that a departure from tradition. Alternative treat every TV as a full fledged computer. Basically Sony would become small, medium and large all-in-one computers runnig the same software etc. with full cross-device compatibility and sharing. That'd make sense. It'd mean one code base to maintain to run on all devices, and a uniform interface for users.
My addition is a wifi sharing hub (watch live and stored media on a tablet, PC, phone), better DLNA and media functionality, multiroom use, cloud PVR recorder, Android ecosystem for PSSuite, Spotify and so on. Not anything new but Sony wants(?) to provide all this as a first-class citizen in a TV service menu.
To some extend we don't need Sony for that, a lot of French channels for example offer replay of their shows through the net (for free) so it's accessible with tablets or smart phone.
I don't follow Sony strategy too closely, if I have to say something about it, I would say "spread too thin".
They have a lot of activities and it's unclear if they have enough direction to pull it out.
What I would want to hear from Sony would be pretty radical: a complex shift in their R&D efforts.
They have the content either in game or music or movies, they need the software.
I would love to hear a Sony exec: "our goal is to be within the next 5 years the leader on android platforms".
They sell most their factory, stop researches on screen, etc; recrut plenty of OS experts and more ARM specialist. They claim android on every TV they sell in three years, Android to come on PSV, PS4 ARM based running Android. Back to KK vision playstation is a computer, actually everything Sony sells is a computer that allow access to their content (among other things, no Apple like policies). I want to hear about aggressive update policies for their devices (where plenty are failing Samsung among others).
They have imho to get there fast, next Xbox could start selling stand alone and as a set top box for all we know in US, that's for the console on other segments the actors are moving even faster.
Imho Android is the only hub standard enough and available readily they could use as a link between all their activities. It's not from Japan, it's not in houses but they get to get rid of that idea, way too much in house developments [edit]or not focused enough[/edit]. Focus should be OS and ARM CPU/GPU implementation because it's the missing link between their activities and what standard now.
I don't follow Sony strategy too closely, if I have to say something about it, I would say "spread too thin".
They have a lot of activities and it's unclear if they have enough direction to pull it out.
What I would want to hear from Sony would be pretty radical: a complex shift in their R&D efforts.
They have the content either in game or music or movies, they need the software.
I would love to hear a Sony exec: "our goal is to be within the next 5 years the leader on android platforms".
They sell most their factory, stop researches on screen, etc; recrut plenty of OS experts and more ARM specialist. They claim android on every TV they sell in three years, Android to come on PSV, PS4 ARM based running Android. Back to KK vision playstation is a computer, actually everything Sony sells is a computer that allow access to their content (among other things, no Apple like policies). I want to hear about aggressive update policies for their devices (where plenty are failing Samsung among others).
They have imho to get there fast, next Xbox could start selling stand alone and as a set top box for all we know in US, that's for the console on other segments the actors are moving even faster.
Imho Android is the only hub standard enough and available readily they could use as a link between all their activities. It's not from Japan, it's not in houses but they get to get rid of that idea, way too much in house developments [edit]or not focused enough[/edit]. Focus should be OS and ARM CPU/GPU implementation because it's the missing link between their activities and what standard now.
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That's just silly. Accepted by who?! In what way have Sony turned into Sega, when Sony make successfully selling consoles - PS1, PS2, PSP and PS3 all feature in the top ten selling games consoles of all time!
Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi make joint venture official, form Japan Display Inc.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/15/sony-toshiba-hitachi-officially-announce-joint-venture-form-j/
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/15/sony-toshiba-hitachi-officially-announce-joint-venture-form-j/
Gosh. That's a big move by Japan that's clearly recognising the pressure from Samsung. What's their plan though? Make their own panels? New technologies with existing LCDs using bought in panels? Could we even see a Cell revivial?! (no...)
Samsung? Really?
I mean they have cheap and usable products, but I really dont think highly of them - after having bought several HDDs and a couple monitors. Their stuff just oozes cheapness, HDDs are all vibrating like hell and the monitor I have now doesnt have a firm stand, rather substandard contrast (specs would say different) and and has notable metallic humm if you drop something on the desk. To me they stand for cheap substandard discounter-products, nothing I even look at when throwing out a significant amount of money (like a TV).
I`d go for a LG or Sony for a good value TV.
I mean they have cheap and usable products, but I really dont think highly of them - after having bought several HDDs and a couple monitors. Their stuff just oozes cheapness, HDDs are all vibrating like hell and the monitor I have now doesnt have a firm stand, rather substandard contrast (specs would say different) and and has notable metallic humm if you drop something on the desk. To me they stand for cheap substandard discounter-products, nothing I even look at when throwing out a significant amount of money (like a TV).
I`d go for a LG or Sony for a good value TV.
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