Sony engineers are good at hardware design. But in software they are poor at best. Plus, the funny thing about a lot of hardware engineers is that they think t

Sony engineers are good at hardware design. But in software they are poor at best. Plus, the funny thing about a lot of hardware engineers is that they think they can write software ok. At least software engineers don't pretend to design hardware. So management takes a bunch of firmware engineers and expects them to design great-looking apps. Right.