Does it really matter ?. They had around 25-28% market share in 2004 [1]. If they had created an ecosystem like Apple based around the Sony Walkman brand they

Does it really matter ?. They had around 25-28% market share in 2004 [1]. If they had created an ecosystem like Apple based around the Sony Walkman brand they could have dominated this sector as well. There was a chance for them to create an end-to-end system as Apple did it. This could have easily blown away the ITunes Store we know today and if i remember correctly Sony`s CEO was the only one opposed to the proposal of Steve Jobs. Did he had something like this in the pipeline he would never had agreed to it. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Statistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Statistics