Well, Morita got old and sick in 1993. Before that time, Sony brought out or popularized transistor radios, trinitron tv’s, higher end pc’s and a damn good, ov

Well, Morita got old and sick in 1993. Before that time, Sony brought out or popularized transistor radios, trinitron tv’s, higher end pc’s and a damn good, overengineered walkman. The one I had in 1989 was metal and plastic, took one aa battery, ran for 3+ hours and had good in ear phones. Followed this up with discmans, but the accountants were making themselves felt by then (cheap plastic). Couple the Kaisen culture with a visionary and things happen. Let the bean counters run things and you get dividends. Sony put lightning in a bottle for a while. So did IBM, so did others from time to time. Apple was rare in that they did it more than once, but have they kept it up?