Why sony killed qrio

Ooops, I mean Japan. I love you. The big fall started in when Sony made that curmudgeonly old British Welsh? What can be said about Stringer?

You can read all about it here in the official press release , that is, if you need a sleeping aid. Years and years of tough love finally found purchase, and at long last, they have not capitulated, but have seen the truly enlightened path:. Drupal is the crappiest publishing platform in the known universe; and 2. It was idiotic to work with a server company owned by the guy who ran Mt.

Thankfully, Anthrobotic is adminned by someone who fanatically archives some important and tons of meaningless shit, allowing re-visitation of a 3. Instructive; because duh we should remember stupid decisions and avoid them in the future; 2. Turns out they create some really smart, cutting-edge, super-tech devices: a doggy robot, and a toddler-sized android.

Off-hand you might not know their names, but almost anyone with electricity will recognize these two:. It went on sale in , and the first run of sold out in less than an hour. Score: 5 , Insightful. I think the proper title should be "the consumer market killed off some of Sony's fad products. The U. With Americans buying less, Asian manufacturers have to reorganize their product lines for items that we do need. Sony is already out of my buying schedule -- the rootkit and the overall low quality of products they've made in recent years have led me to decide to never buy their products again.

I help a few cEOs and upper management types from my client base purchase home electronics and appliances -- I'll always tell them never buy Sony. Even worse, I don't even hear the wealthy elites asking about the latest flat panel TVs, high end GPS systems or the latest computer gadgets. If the wealthy are having a hard time staying on the 18 month upgrade cycle, what does that say about the economy? Sony is probably smart to start slicing and dicing.

The best thing they can do is refocus on their higher end line -- people who can afford the expense will want the best quality product available. I hate seeing a company I loved become a company I hate.

They chased the common man, and their products suffered for it. They chased markets created out of force against consumer action music, movies, etc to give their previous customers even more reason to hate them.

Sony, if you're listening and you want to be pragmatic meaning practical , chop it all out. Sell it all off. Return to Japan, make high end products with meticulous attention to detail and care.

Love your customers again -- those willing to pay for the product quality and service. Don't chase the Best Buy guy or the Circuit City kitty?

Here's a hint for all you future entrepreneurs: the only thing that will keep you profitable is to keep your customers happy and offer them a consistency in your performance -- product quality and customer service.

Ignore the trends, the fads and trying to sell everything to everyone. Share twitter facebook. Re:Truly bad product timing or economic pressure? Score: 4 , Insightful. Not a smart thing to do, but it's the "safe" thing to do. The problem is, competition in Korea and Taiwan ate that lunch a long time ago.

The more Sony retreats from the markets it currently occupies Clies, for example , the more consumer mindshare it's giving up. Parent Share twitter facebook. Score: 3 , Insightful. Yes, I believe you are right. I also believe that the Internet is starting to bring free market ideals into action. I don't believe mega-corporations can exist for very long without government subsidies or favoritism. Now we have instant information, reviews, and feature and price comparisons.

Sony can't compete on that level. I believe Sony's and most megacorps' best option would be to spin off into separate companies. There is nothing wrong with these 10 companies and maybe 20 other companies. Score: 2. The media entertainment division managment is likely the great driver for sony electronics failures.

Focusing on marketing and not product quality might qork with media and teenagers but doing it with hardware will just create a huge number of cranky customers who will become extremely resistant to the purchase of any of your products. Put down the pipe Mexican plants are perfictly able to produce high quality products; Sony is not paying them to do so.

The problem has nothing at all to do with Mexican labor vs. Re:Put down the pipe Score: 4 , Funny. Mexican plants are perfictly able to produce high quality products I dunno about that. That's what it's for! Ahh, Rosa, we'll always have Tijuana What you say is true. If there's profit, you're doing well. If there's not, you're not. Score: 2 , Insightful. It's not just about profit, though that in itself is a complex thing. Aibo may not be profitable by itself, but it can very well improve the profits on other products.

Score: 3 , Interesting. On the same vein, my dad's first TV was a Sony that lasted upwards of 15 years without a problem. Since then he always bought Sony TVs. Over the last decade he has come to me for advice on electronics. I pointed him towards the iMac 21" G5. He will never willingly use Windows again. I got him a iPod for Christmas. His CD collection will never leave the house again. I think I'm going to have him get a Samsung.

I don'. Score: 2 , Interesting. You paid a premium for a high quality product with higher quality service. The free market in action : Samsung is the ONLY television company I will buy from right now other than large screen projectors.

The last 3 TVs I helped people buy were from Samsung. My cell phone is from Samsung. These people answer their e-mails and phone calls, and they've fixed any problem I've had in recent years. Good choices, good post.

Samsung is a great company and the past 3 cellphones I've owned have been Samsungs. When they moved in it was still going strong, but he wanted a wide-screen, so he sold it as part of the house. The new one is a 52" wide-screen and is great, but it's a monster it's from , what do you expect. US biggest buyer? Re:US biggest buyer? Score: 3 , Funny. In Japan, if you want to display your financial superiority, you buy cool electronic toys - ultra-light laptops In the US, you buy a big car In short, in the U.

Buy Stuff or your Little Dog gets it! Ok, so the Aibo really only sold to really geeky people, and they don't see a marketing linkage between toys like that and selling mini-disks and DRM'd CDs etc. I agree with you that focusing on putting out a high end product "with meticulous attention to detail and care" will certainly be of high benefit to them, and I couldn't agree more that I would love to be able to trust knowing that when I buy a Sony product, I am getting that legendary Sony quality that seems to have gone noticably missing over the past several years.

The way the market forces work, I think this happens to a lot of companies. Lets continue with Sony - they create a great, well made, well. It's really simple. The current corporate viewpoint clearly is that the value of a reputation is measured by how much money you can extract from it. In other words, figure out how much cheap crap can you sell for way more than anyone would pay for it if not for the reputation, add it all up, that's the value of your reputation.

Everyone's cashing in. Score: 2 , Funny. My Jack Russell Terrier never turned a profit, but we didn't kill him for lack of performance. There have been many stories over the years that I've heard whi. Are are having no trouble staying on that cycle.

I know I deal with lots of high income clients with my side of home automation specalist. They want things to work. The Treo? I hope you're happy! Score: 5 , Funny. Sony's got to cut back to the bone to survive because you piratical sons-of-bitches aren't buying enough Ricky Martin CDs!!

Close but no cigar. Metal dog dies. Rumour has it that these Sony products have rootkits in them that can be remotely accessed to initiate a horrific self-destruct sequence.

Or are you using another structural element that carries a load? What's left? So they killed off their PDA line, the Clie Now they are killing off their research technologies Moving to toothpick business!

Re:What's left? Score: 1. What's next? With Sony stopping the production on many products, we will soon be hearing: "Sony has announced today that they will no longer continue with production of their much anticipated Playstation 3. I hope this doesn't become a recurring habit for Sony. Well they are also stopping production of tubes in the USA. Something that's been done for years. Everyone's all about LCD, Plasma and various projection types these days, so Sony is going to work that angle harder.

The picture quality is almost impossible to beat - at any price. It's all about consolidation. Getting rid of the lavish products that don't generate much profit and focusing on your strong products. Amazon went through this awhile back. I remember at one point they were selling a broom that cost 3 times as much to ship than the broom itself cost. I imagine there weren't a whole lot of people buying it, but it still sat in inventory taking up space.

Every once in awhile you just need to step back and say "do we really need to sell some of these things? Financially it makes sense, but a compamy like that really can't afford to abandom their customers!

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