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02/17/2005, 9:05am, EST
Thursday, February 17th
Sony plans iPod competitor, denies Apple buyout
Sony said it would release a product by the end of the year to compete with the iPod, reports Business World. "We are confident of being able to offer by the end of the year a product that is much more competitive than the iPod," president Kunitake Ando said. Ando said Apple's success was in developing a product that is simple to use. "We have to develop software that makes use of our products more intuitive and simple," he told reporters. Ando also dismissed rumours the company will buy Apple, saying it "has become too expensive because of the success of iPod." Chairman and chief executive Nobuyuki Idei added: "We have put in place a very aggressive plan to become number one again" in portable music.
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An Aibo that sings. :0)
So Sony did have a plan to buy Apple?
Here's a crazy way for Sony to partner with Apple, and solve all of their problems...
Sony should make an iPod. That is, a device compatible with iTunes as if it were an iPod, and bearing an iPod label. It can be their own device. Basically, going a bit further than HP did.
fwiw sony has a pretty decent imovie-esque editor that comes with their vaios. ironically enough codeveloped my macromedia.