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Radio Thinking is not Platform Thinking

Recently CNN’s Fareed Zakaria spoke with Sony Chairman Howard Stringer about Japan’s post-crisis economic recovery.

In the context of that discussion, Stringer talked about the evolution of his own company, Sony, in the wake of a different kind of Tsunami – the kind Apple let loose on the world of mobile devices and entertainment beginning with its iPod and continuing to this day.

Sony, Stringer explained, was once building vertical devices for vertical markets.  The company was blindsided by Apple’s moves because Apple’s solutions were developed horizontally – across applications and media and devices.

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