The other stupidity of Sony management is that they even wait months to release their phones unlocked in the US. They should have gone for an aggressive strategy and releases their mid range phones for cheap unlocked on their website and their own retail sites, then pushed for network presence.
I literally can't think of a worse way to break into the US market than Sony over the last couple of years. It was without a doubt the worst strategy ever.
Samsung is killing them.
Sony never should have been trying to compete at the mid-low end of the market anyway. Even Samsung is starting to get it's clock cleaned by the Chinese there.
They've proven they can make a nice premium product. Focus on that. Offer one or two premium models on a few configurations. That's it. If that doesn't work, shut it all down and find some blue water.
So, who's in position to acquire Playstation?
Oh lol ... I'll take a look at his requote, sorry.Look at the two quotes, he is quoting himself, and have all the info.
hmm I see, that's very disappointing then.The thing is HTC, LG and Motorola bent over backwards and converted the carriers one by one over the years to get on their networks. Sony do not do whatever it takes to get it done. T-Mobile did the work for them, that's why the phones were so bloody late. They refused point blank to open up a CDMA testing group for VZW for two years and only changed that stance in May of this year. Masayoshi Son personally spoke to Kunimasa Suzuki to get a device for SoftBank in Japan which he said he would push on Sprint once the takeover was complete, Sony declined and said they would remain with their NTT partnership who then predictably sold Sony up the river a few months later and did a deal with Apple for the iPhone. Son signed a deal with Sharp and now their phones are being released on Sprint, the first weird Japanese devices to make it out of the country.
Sony Mobile management are a bunch of fools. The networks have no interest in carrying their devices and yet they try and act like Apple who command the attention of every carrier in the world. Sony as a brand is worthless outside of PlayStation and they need to come to terms with that and rebuild from zero, and in some areas less than zero where they are associated with poor value for money.
Seems so :\they're also killing themselves
Nintendo?
now that would be goooood
Nintendo?
now that would be goooood
The chinese will out innovate the japanese, i believe in lenovo
The interesting thing is the US seems to be starting to slowly move towards non-subsidies.It's ok Sony. Just keep ignoring the US and your mobile division will be just fine.
I've ALWAYS wanted an xperia phone. But somehow they just don't seem willing to break into the US, at least not on Verizon.
It seems like as a whole, the company has been plagued with mismanagement from the top down. I still very much like their products and would continue to pay a premium for them.
Might want to wait until there are actual examples of this.
They've certainly done some great things in terms of pricing (which of course is due to shit wages) ... but I've seen little evidence of major innovations thus far.
Might want to wait until there are actual examples of this.
They've certainly done some great things in terms of pricing (which of course is due to shit wages) ... but I've seen little evidence of major innovations thus far.
I love it when people think they know how to fix Sony. We don't have all the information available... We haven't used that information we don't have to perform management analyses. Those people who have (at Sony or working for Sony) are the only ones with any credible voice.
zomgbbqftw said:Guess who just wrote a scathing report about Sony Mobile for investors. D:
I love it when people think they know how to fix Sony. We don't have all the information available... We haven't used that information we don't have to perform management analyses. Those people who have (at Sony or working for Sony) are the only ones with any credible voice.
So, who's in position to acquire Playstation?
They need to start firing whoever is in charge of making decisions and being late to the damn party every single fucking time.
They need to fire Katsumi Ihara. He's the one behind it all in which Aquamarine had posted.
What?
Katsumi Ihara is the mastermind behind the Financial Services Division.
You know, this division...the one with the 170 billion JPY profits?
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Those who have PS4 really should not be worried at all. PS6? Well, maybe, but anyone who ever plans that far ahead is lying.
The chinese will out innovate the japanese, i believe in lenovo
Has Sony ever has a phone on Verizon???
Kaz, et al, had been making some decent strides to improve their image in certain sectors. It's sad to hear that hasn't extended to their dealings with carriers. They've been quite conciliatory when it came to Playstation, and while Vita continues to flounder it's obviously helped the PS4's position quite a bit. Granted MS's numerous missteps helped, but Sony's change in demeanor was a big part of things.
They need to make similar overtures to carriers and phone consumers. To be frank, we really need a company with Sony's tech prowess in the market ... if only to keep the mainstays honest. That's only more true now that Moto and HTC have dropped so much share. No one but Samsung wants Samsung alone in this market.
What division are you interviewing for?
Has Sony ever has a phone on Verizon???
But what exactly do Sony bring to the market? They make Android phones, same as everyone else. They have smart design and good build quality but so do the flagships from everyone else. They leverage their ecosystem, but besides PSN, most of their services are completely irrelevant to the market at large.
They capitalised on Microsoft's missteps in gaming because it's a two horse race and they picked up the floaters by default. There's no equivalence in mobile. It's a ten horse race and every possible niche is saturated with options. They have no unique strengths to bring to the table and no amount of confident chest beating is going to push their reskinned Android slabs over anyone else's reskinned Android slabs.
But what exactly do Sony bring to the market? They make Android phones, same as everyone else. They have smart design and good build quality but so do the flagships from everyone else. They leverage their ecosystem, but besides PSN, most of their services are completely irrelevant to the market at large.
They capitalised on Microsoft's missteps in gaming because it's a two horse race and they picked up the floaters by default. There's no equivalence in mobile. It's a ten horse race and every possible niche is saturated with options. They have no unique strengths to bring to the table and no amount of confident chest beating is going to push their reskinned Android slabs over anyone else's reskinned Android slabs.
Yes Motorola does some great things, but they also only release a few devices at this point. Hopefully they start trickling down Moto's good ideas to other devices ... and hopefully they keep Moto's designers intact and producing innovative products.they bought motorola... and their previous purchase of IBM laptop division has made them the number one laptop manufacture in the world in terms of sales.
They legitimately have an arguably better designed phone than any other Android phone with the best battery (again, this matters most to consumers along with design/ease of use/experience). It wouldn't be hard from the them to sell the fact that they do. People would care about this and want it. If they were on most of the carriers, with the growth of the PS4 in the US, people would notice cool things like PS4 remote play that just work and that would automatically put it a leg up.
Right now they just are trying to position themselves in a place to succeed when this entire time, they've had the skills and past historical knowledge to leverage their strengths and react to the market properly.
Design and battery are features people care about but hardly the basis of cornering off a sizeable segment of the smartphone market. They need something sexy to go along with that because nobody buys a phone just because of a great battery.
And Remote Play... Do people really want to play their PS4 via cellular data with touch screen controls?
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