@Jo21&Outlaw: I wonder if ten years from now people are telling how great products LG manufacturers.
Basically Sony has high-end consumer products (or atleast seems to have) only in TV:s and games consoles.
Sony has always relied on its brand, the one it gained originally with transistor radios (iPod of the time) and to keep it familiar. And relied also on keeping manufacturing products cheaper. Combining the two, they are able to sell their products cheaper than the competing better product, but also charge some extra compared to competing cheap manufacturers.
Sonys closest competitor, Philips, would propably be in the same situation as Sony, if it hadn't made some radical changes a few years ago, due to increased competition from koreans, which was Philips to adopt the "Würth model", meaning that they don't manufacture anything themselves, they buy their stuff from various manufacturers and just brand it as Philips. And i don't know if this is the direction Stringer will drive Sony, but it is a possibility.
Anyway, in a way Sony has gone "up" due to the higher tier competitors ditching their product lines and new competitors entering.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
