[Am-info] Microsoft vs. Sony

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.05.19 05:54 AM, John Poltorak typed: ============

>Over the next few years, I can see a huge fight taking place between 
>Microsoft and Sony. The main area of conflict is likely to be computer games 
>consoles, but the two companies are also competitors in the markets for 
>mobile phones and PDAs. I guess the long term goal is the domination of 
>home entertainment systems. I fear that Microsoft with its finger in the 
>pie of so many technologies all built round Windows is going to win. It has 
>the Xbox with connectivity to the Internet via broadband, Pocket PC,  
>SmartPhone, TV set top boxes, .NET, a huge stake in many telecomms 
>companies and ISPs - it has just bought Europe's biggest ISP. It has more 
>spare cash than anyone can imagine as well as US govt approval for 
>extending its monopoly into every area it wants to enter.
>
>
>You wonder what chances Sony has in the long term, but it would be nice to 
>see them making a strong fight of it.

  "We are afraid of Bill Gates. And Bill Gates is afraid of us." 
       -Sony Vice President Masayoshi Morimoto (quoted several years ago, 
in Wired I think)



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