He's sort of right. At least they would have been more competitive with apple.
Sony's engineers are good and their design teams have a decent aesthetic sense. Their problem is lethargic and dull management.
I was involved with TWO different companies since 2001 who tried to partner with sony offering exactly what he describes: open standards / open source tools for distributing content to sony devices, and they dropped the ball both times.
Sony engineers are good at hardware design. But in software they are poor at best.
Plus, the funny thing about a lot of hardware engineers is that they think they can write software ok. At least software engineers don't pretend to design hardware. So management takes a bunch of firmware engineers and expects them to design great-looking apps. Right.
Sony's engineers are good and their design teams have a decent aesthetic sense. Their problem is lethargic and dull management.
I was involved with TWO different companies since 2001 who tried to partner with sony offering exactly what he describes: open standards / open source tools for distributing content to sony devices, and they dropped the ball both times.