The PC has tripped on the carpet going into the living room. |
The people who set that up (in Rancho Bernardo) were promoted within Sony . . . because they were able to make what was perceived then as Japanese quality with American workers. So long before Toyota and Nissan and others moved in the U.S. with car manufacturing, Sony was producing very high quality products in the U.S. |
The real finger should be pointed to AACS to ask why it takes nine months for them to come up with this standard. |
There are up to 8 layers in an average power chip, and IBM ( Profile , Products , Articles ) appears to have used just the right technology that gave them the fastest speed and least heat needed in each layer of the chip. |
There is no middle ground with a meeting with Steve Jobs. You are either contributing to something he has thought of, or you are agreeing to something he has thought of. |
There's no ignoring the Chinese, |
They can't control retail prices, for example. Today, Sony's TVs are one-third less than they were a year ago. And still, their products are 40% more expensive than the other brands. That's a disaster. And there's no indication that things will get better. |
They have managed to create business where there was none. There was no personal computer until Apple. There was no digital video business until Apple. Today, the digital living room is a zero-billion-dollar-business. And it will probably stay that way until Apple gets into it. |
They pour glass and copper and zirconium and tungsten in one end, and come out with these very beautiful picture tubes on the other. There's just not enough volume to justify this amazing plant. |
This is the first music product that people consider to be an emotional statement. |
This is the green light that a lot of companies have been waiting for, ... Unless your name was Novell or Red Hat, you couldn't be sure you had clear legal title to Linux. |
This is the green light that a lot of companies have been waiting for. Unless your name was Novell or Red Hat, you couldn't be sure you had clear legal title to Linux. |
This is too big; the genie is out of the bottle and consumers are embracing [music over the Internet]. |
This new commitment to the chip will result in more training, for starters. |
Toshiba can't back out of this format war for face-saving reasons, ... But pushing ahead means dealing with the Chinese sooner rather than later. They'll risk dealing with the Chinese if it means getting the format out quicker. |