Although our electronics businesses are under real pressure today, we firmly believe in its future prospects and potential. |
an artist of the highest order. |
Andy Lack has executed this very complicated merger between Sony Music and BMG music brilliantly, |
Apple would not have sold its devices if they didn't have their agreements with music companies. Sony did not do that, even though we own the music business. |
Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage? |
Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off. |
exceptionally well-suited to manage the company in this challenging and ever-changing environment. |
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony. |
Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year. |
He's a star. Nobody turns down a meeting with him. |
I have never actually met any Japanese politicians and I seem to be doing fine. We look forward to a continuing strong relationship with China in many years to come and growing our business. |
I think if we're going to sell these new goods and services to the public, we first have the obligation not to mention the bottom-line imperative but to explain them clearly, ... That's the first step toward simplification. Something that's genuinely easy to use is also genuinely easy to talk about using. |
In a company where jobs were for life, it created competition that made Sony the great company it is, ... It created artificial competition, which you needed. |
In the digital age, content lends both brain and muscle to our electronics business, |
It's urgent we rectify this situation. |