They produced good hardware, but failed to account for the content side of ereading. I don't know really what happened with monitors and televisions, other than that two decades of deflationary conditions have made it difficult for Japanese manufacturers to compete with Korean manufacturers.Įreading has some similarities to their fall in music. With consoles, they overestimated the value people placed on great hardware and put out a device that was much more expensive than the competition. Sony failed to ride the digital wave and provide a user friendly experience for music consumers. The Sony Walkman flourished on the music industry's consumer unfriendly model of producing CD's with only one or two good songs on them. Apple capitalized on the fears that digital piracy would destroy the music industry be creating an ecosystem and model that allowed you to download individual songs to your device for only $.99, encouraging people to start buying music again. With music, they failed to take advantage of the digital wave. Now they are losing to Amazon in their own home market. They were the first to bring eink to the market. They use to dominate monitors and televisions. The last generation they were knocked off by Nintendo and after seven years have finally surpassed Microsoft in marketshare. Then they got quashed by the ipod.įor two generations they dominated the console market, selling more than their competitors combined. Unbelievable! This is the company that gave us the Walkman? Now giving us last year's ereader at this year's price? When you can get a non-front lit Kindle for $69? Words fail me.
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