Guys, just because those old man made bad decision doesn't mean that everything that come out from their mouths is necessarily bad.
Lets see at what kaz hirai tried to do:
Sold buildings. Comom, this is a no solution, its just a aways to percive more profitability. Its a cost that in the long term, will come back rigth to their faces with expensive rents.
Try to shrink out from EUA and only focus in europe with their mobile division. It din't worked.
Job cuts across all the division. Didn't sony santa monica fired a entire work group working in a new IP at that time? Yet, this didn't stoped them to selout the PC division.
What i think is that sony should have scraped the mobile divion a long time ago, but they are still trying to save it, even if only bleed money so far. Its just not worth it. All the other division are dopign fine to ok, why insist in mantain the malfunction machine? If you don't want to end all the operation and fire a huge ammount of people, sell it. I bet if they had alreadly done it, they could have said the PC division
"Hardware design isn’t about making the most powerful thing you can.
Today most hardware design is left to other companies, but when you make hardware without taking into account the needs of the eventual software developers, you end up with bloated hardware full of pointless excess. From the outset one must consider design from both a hardware and software perspective."
Gunpei Yoko
