Apple 'a nightmare' - Sony CEO

[iGav]

You can just imagine Steve being like this... heh heh!! Some interesting stuff though!!

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Sony chairman and CEO Nobuyuki Idei has described working with Apple as "a nightmare".


In an interview with business-news site AlwaysOn, Idei reveals that Sony met with Apple CEO Steve Jobs several times in 2002 to "try to work out a mutual strategy".


He said: "But you know Steve, he has his own agenda. Although he's a genius, he doesn't share everything with you. This is a difficult person to work with if you are a big company. We started working with them, but it is a nightmare."


He went on to discuss the integration of the home entertainment and communications platforms, contrasting Sony's TV-centric approach with Apple's digital-hub strategy. He said: "In the consumer electronics industry few people understand OS architecture, so it would be hard for any of us to compete in the operating software area. Even at Sony, where we have many smart software developers, we still can't compete with the IT industry in this area."


Idei also compares Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Ken Kutaragi to Jobs: "Maybe if we can get them together then they could figure out how the PlayStation and the Mac can work together."

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Re: Apple 'a nightmare' - Sony CEO

Originally posted by iGAV
You can just imagine Steve being like this... heh heh!! Some interesting stuff though!!

Idei also compares Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Ken Kutaragi to Jobs: "Maybe if we can get them together then they could figure out how the PlayStation and the Mac can work together."

Very interesting, and the idea that the PlayStation and the Mac would work together would be a coup!!! Love to see that.

D

 

[MacBandit]

Re: Re: Apple 'a nightmare' - Sony CEO

Originally posted by dukestreet
Very interesting, and the idea that the PlayStation and the Mac would work together would be a coup!!! Love to see that.

D

It would only make since. Sony wants the PS3 to be the center of the entire digital household. Can you say digital hub.

 

[iGav]

Re: Re: Apple 'a nightmare' - Sony CEO

Originally posted by dukestreet
Very interesting, and the idea that the PlayStation and the Mac would work together would be a coup!!! Love to see that.

D

Certainly would..... I think Sony is so far advanced in it's approach to the total intergrated home technology thingy..... that anything is possible, and in away it's quite scary (but cool) that everything is beginning to intergrate!

They seem to be working on intergrating everything so that it works together, from simple things like the introducing Firewire on stereos etc, to the memory stick.... to the intergration of the Aibo with a PC...

Now if they just made fridges......

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Re: Re: Re: Apple 'a nightmare' - Sony CEO

Originally posted by MacBandit
It would only make since. Sony wants the PS3 to be the center of the entire digital household. Can you say digital hub.

ah, can you say iStation

that works for me too! Integration does have a long way to go, but the fact that the two companies are talking really sounds like it could have great potential.

D

 

[MacBandit]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Apple 'a nightmare' - Sony CEO

Originally posted by dukestreet
ah, can you say iStation

that works for me too! Integration does have a long way to go, but the fact that the two companies are talking really sounds like it could have great potential.

D

I don't think that the fact they are talking is all that new. They have had a working relationship for quite a while. Think about FireWire. Sony was one of if not the first large manufacturer to adopt it in mass.

 

[Kid Red]

Apple 'a nighmare' ah no. WORKING WITH Apple 'a nightmare'. Big difference, thanks fpr playing.

 

[Stelliform]

If Sony wants to work with Apple, calling them a Nightmare to work with sure doesn't seem like a good way to build a relationship.

 

[alset]

Originally posted by Stelliform
If Sony wants to work with Apple, calling them a Nightmare to work with sure doesn't seem like a good way to build a relationship.

I don't see it as an issue. The reasons stated are well known problems when working with Steve. Steve, himself, knows this.

Besides, Steve wants so much to emulate Sony that he couldn't stay away.

Dan

 

[timbloom]

Sony has lots of hardware, and LOTS of games. They just run the wrong OS on their computers. Wouldn't be cool if sony had a platform for all their appliances so they would actually work together.

In exchange for possible PS support on the mac. This would shatter that brick wall for gamers switching to a mac. Every PS game would now be at your reach.

I know that this is stretching it, and don't ever expect it to happen, but that would sure own.

 

[iGav]

Originally posted by alset
I don't see it as an issue. The reasons stated are well known problems when working with Steve. Steve, himself, knows this.

Besides, Steve wants so much to emulate Sony that he couldn't stay away.

Dan

Totally, I don't think he'd take that as too harsh a criticism!

Maybe we'll get like a Mac robot dog type thingy.....

 

[coolsoldier]

Originally posted by timbloom
In exchange for possible PS support on the mac. This would shatter that brick wall for gamers switching to a mac. Every PS game would now be at your reach.

I know that this is stretching it, and don't ever expect it to happen, but that would sure own.

Umm...Anyone remember VGS? That's about as 'real' as support for PS on the mac will get. That's not about to get people to switch.