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Yeah, I know that Hitachi makes industrial equipment. I'm talking consumer products divisions here. Also yes, HP is alive. It is a shadow of its former self wh
by abraxas 4y ago
Yeah, I know that Hitachi makes industrial equipment. I'm talking consumer products divisions here.
Also yes, HP is alive. It is a shadow of its former self when it comes to the impact on the industry.
Sony is the name that fared best in the consumer space due to the outsized impact of the Playstation franchise. But again, it's a shadow of the presence it had in the households worldwide in the 80's. You had to be around then to appreciate just how ubiquitous their consumer electronics was. Sony was the Apple Inc of the eighties.
- SoftTalker 4y agoSony. The one and only. The tagline was true at the time.
- MomoXenosaga 4y agoIt feels like LG and Samsung just came out of nowhere to take over the TV market.
- abraxas 4y agoOh, they were around in the eighties. Except at the time they made crap bought by those who could not afford a Sony. LG was called GoldStar at the time and had to rebrand as the original name was in tatters due to their poor quality. However, they ground it out patiently into dominance, over decades.
- SoftTalker 4y agoOddly enough I have a GoldStar microwave oven I bought in the late 1980s and it still works perfectly. I use it almost daily.
- SanjayMehta 4y agoLucky Goldstar to be precise. One of the first colour TV sets I saw as a kid. We didn't have colour transmission until the early 80s.
- delta_p_delta_x 4y ago> their consumer electronics Good point. Smartphones have obviated most of Sony’s past dominance (cassette/VCR players, portable radios, Walkmans, etc). However, I still don’t think it’s fair to call it a ‘shadow’ of its former self—Sony has just divested into different areas of consumer electronics.