Howard Stringer To Retire From Sony In June

COMMENTS (4)

• A class act.

  Comment by Leola — Friday March 8, 2013 @ 7:54pm PST  Reply to this post

• Sony, like many other companies, made the classic mistake of forgetting who they were, what they made and why they were considered an excellent company. Their problems are self inflicted, they lost a lot of customer good will, good will developed and nutured over decades, and it will take a long, long time, if ever, for it to regain it. Good luck. I use to buy their products exclusively, but gave up on them several years ago.

  Comment by RPF — Friday March 8, 2013 @ 9:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• Kazuo Hirai is the right man for the job, and is doing the right thing in streamlining the company: shifting Sony’s focus away from low profit products such as televisions which, apart from anything else, once sold don’t really bring with them any directly attached revenue streams (maybe a one off purchase of a blu ray player and dvd and blu ray movies); listening to games developers (as Sony did with PSone) for feedback on the specifications for the PS4, with the intention that PS4 dominate the games market just as PSone and PS2 did. Personally, I love Sony’s products. The quality is amazing, and though they usually occupy the middle ground in terms of pricing, neither the cheapest nor the most expensive, its pretty much guaranteed the quality of the product will always impress.

  Comment by ManWithSword — Friday March 8, 2013 @ 11:36pm PST  Reply to this post

• Sir Stringer, I bid you well as go into that good night.

  Comment by Amy Pascal — Saturday March 9, 2013 @ 8:01pm PST  Reply to this post