Re: Financial Times speculates on death of the Sony Reader
Suzanne Francis <suzanne-y4B3vrZUf/[email protected]>
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As usual the article looks at everything from an US point of view,
thereby neglecting the rest of the world where access to Kindle's 3G
network will not be a reality any time soon, if ever. It would be Sony
or one of its competitors for me--or nothing. Suzanne
Bill Janssen wrote:
>
> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b8b8e0c0-63d2-11dd-844f-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=75297104-33fa-11da-adae-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html
> <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b8b8e0c0-63d2-11dd-844f-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=75297104-33fa-11da-adae-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html>
>
> The reporter says that Stringer, the chief of Sony, is trying to make
> everything connected, but that the Kindle may already have trumped the
> Reader:
>
> ``The danger for Sony is that it is already too late. Amazon has
> grabbed the market-leading position from Sony and established a
> stronger brand, which is what happened with the iPod and the
> Walkman. Sony never managed to recover, despite trying repeatedly to
> match Apple.''
>
> Bill
>
>
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