mornelithe said:
If such a thing were to come to pass, I honestly don't think they would keep all of the unprofitable divisions, they'd either break them up and sell off the ones they aren't interested in, or just shut them down entirely. Don't you think? Sony has a major movie studio, and one of the larger music studios, and one of the larger groups of in-house developers, not to mention 2nd parties, on top of all of the patents they hold. Sony doesn't just make phones...afterall. There's plenty there for Apple, who, of late have been very interested in content, could leverage into their own products/services. And since they're so great at overcharging for....pretty much everything they sell, I'm sure they could make it profitable pretty quickly, especially if they sold off the divisions that they weren't interested in. Still, all that aside, I don't want this to occur in any way shape or form. |
Could they get rid of that stuff? Sure.
While COMPLETELY tanking their reputation in Japan...
and while having paid for that stuff.
If they want patents, there are tons of other companoes that would be cheaper and honestly.
If anyone was going to buy sony to gut it down to it's profitable parts it'd be a "bain capital" type company or just some individual investors.
