GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us that the
success of Apple's iPod has had major repercussions for Sony who once dominated
the portable music market with its walkmans. The head of the company's US division said "We didn't get there and by that time, Steve Jobs was there". He was obviously referring to Apple's major success with the iPod and their music download service.
Sony's shares have slumped recently while executives within the company fight about how to create a music player that will compete with the iPod as well as worry about how piracy is affecting their music division's CD sales. The success of the iPod has had major repercussions within the industry showing that smaller hard drives in clever products work; this in turn has caused Toshiba and Hitachi to design even smaller hard drives to fit even smaller devices.
| The success of the iPod has had major repercussions for the company whose Walkmans once dominated the
|
Read the full story over at PC PRO. Sony was just to slow this time round it had nothing to compete
with the Apple iPod when it launched, and its music store is over 1 year after
Apple's which now has built up a massive user base. Sony is going to have
major problems competing as it was just so slow, with so many services, now over
1000 available they are going to have a tough time.
Source: PC PRO
