Hmm...an incredible hardware manufacturer (witness Jony Ives' admiration with a mock mock-up of an imagined Sony phone during the creation process for the iPhone) let down by a) crap software and poor implementation (my X1060 Walkman had incredible, beautiful hardware but the software, while serviceable was just weird in places...having to type http:// at the start of every address in the browser...eh?) and b) the ever litigating media arm of Sony/Columbia whatever it's called. They are the main reason Sony never competed properly with the iPod and went from dominating personal music players and home media to being a fringe alternative, all driven by their stupid DRM and the fear of users copying their music. (thankfully the aforementioned X1060 was drag and drop, but by then it was too late).

And now they are flogging their TV arm. At least the company is getting smaller, being massive with more bureaucracy than Whitehall is probably one of the reasons they are fucked.