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Sony owns a record label and film studio, phones and has had a cloud distribution network since 2006 via the PS3 but they completely missed the boat on music an
by djtango 2y ago
Sony owns a record label and film studio, phones and has had a cloud distribution network since 2006 via the PS3 but they completely missed the boat on music and video streaming.
Too many of their orgs were siloed from one another. As someone who has kind of admired their products, you can only laugh at how poorly things turned out for them given what we know today.
- djtango 2y agoJust adding to this the peak was Sony acquiring Crunchyroll for over 1B - a "company" who started life as a pirating site for anime
- nikanj 2y agoJust like Nokia, where the organization was made of dozens of business units trying to screw each other over. A great concept on paper ("We have no credible competitors, so to remain fresh, we have to become our own competitor"), but in reality they ended up shooting their own, supernumerous, feet