Hirai says Sony is on track for a comeback

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Perhaps I have become jaded, but I am nauseated by the amount of spinning that is going on here, and no I am not talking about Kaz's comments on the future prospects of his company. I am talking about the Sony fans on these forums. He has an excuse for what he is doing. The rest of you ought to know better by now. Sony has consistently failed to meet expectations for the better part of a decade. Over selling the future prospects of the company with the proof all of a month away.

Now that is just plain daring the other side to tan your ass, and the only thing that makes any sense to me. Is that many of you get off on the humiliation. Experience and self preservation alone should stop you from heading head long into this particular meat grinder. The fact that it hasn't can only mean that you get off on the pain, or the pain you know your encouragements are going to inflict upon others. Would anyone care to explain to me why you haven't learned after all of these years.

The contents of this interview aren't promising. He didn't say the company has returned to profitability. He said that he was basically micro managing his company, because he obviously doesn't trust his subordinates. While he apparently still intends to follow the failed television strategy that has bled the company for so many years. All the while betting on distant technologies that cannot render immediate relief. Then to top it off he showed off a waterproof cell phone. Seriously what market was out their demanding that feature.

Look I don't mind people being cautiously optimistic, but the guy is untried, untested, and unverified. Unlike his predecessor who was all of those things. We don't know whether he is doing a good job, or that the things he has done are in fact good, or that his strategy is the right one. Hell there are a lot of reasons to think that it isn't the right one, because it is basically a variation of what Stringer had done for years. With a much heavier emphasis on acquisitions which are funded by sales, and taking on greater debt.

Praise shouldn't just be given. It should be earned, and based upon performance. We will know how good or bad he is in thirty or forty days. Sure you can give him the benefit of the doubt, but the key word here is that there is doubt. I read too many factual statements about how great a corporate leader he is. It isn't like there have been a slew of people that have claimed he sucked. So why are there so many in this thread that have declared him to be a god among men.