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The first thing that came to mind was the hockey puck.
I like a lot of Apple products but I've never used one of their mice that I've liked, even the new ones. Maybe it's because I once got stuck with that damned puck for a few weeks.
The interview with John Sculley indicates that Jobs has always had a great admiration for "the Sony way" and patterned early Apple processes after processes Jobs et al observed at the Sony factory. As we keep that in mind and notice that Apple has converged into the consumer electronics space, which Sony had locked up back in the days of Walkman, Sony starts to make sense as a potential Apple interest. Perhaps Jobs f…
Apple should acquire the rights to Steam from Valve. It makes a good fit for their business: 1) Prevent competition on the Mac app store 2) Proven distribution/scalability 3) Instant community that can bolster Ping Edited. Brainfart, put "Sony" there
The interview with John Sculley indicates that Jobs has always had a great admiration for "the Sony way" and patterned early Apple processes after processes Jobs et al observed at the Sony factory. As we keep that in mind and notice that Apple has converged into the consumer electronics space, which Sony had locked up back in the days of Walkman, Sony starts to make sense as a potential Apple interest. Perhaps Jobs f…
Here is a line for Apple: "Never underestimate the power of people's vanity."
and so on.
Sony makes really great hardware, and (most of the time) utterly wretched software. Sony could be a much better company with Apple's help. Not sure how such a merger helps Apple, though.
Such a merger will never happen and if it does it will be a dangerous move for both. People never think about cultural match when discussing mergers.
…and they made $17.6B profit last year.
Apple makes the MacBook Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air, Mac Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, iPad, iPhone, iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, and iPod Touch along with some peripherals…
…and they made $17.2B profit last year. And some would claim that Apple has let the SKU list get out of hand over the past few years…there's probably some fat trimming in the company's future...
Two completely different corporate philosophies. Chance of merger: 0%.
Sony makes really great hardware, and (most of the time) utterly wretched software. Sony could be a much better company with Apple's help. Not sure how such a merger helps Apple, though.
Not sure how this would help either company. Apple doesn't need any help getting really great hardware made. If anything, Sony would bring the quality down considerably.
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The interview with John Sculley indicates that Jobs has always had a great admiration for "the Sony way" and patterned early Apple processes after processes Jobs et al observed at the Sony factory. As we keep that in mind and notice that Apple has converged into the consumer electronics space, which Sony had locked up back in the days of Walkman, Sony starts to make sense as a potential Apple interest. Perhaps Jobs f…