By: Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:01:05 +0000

I have a relative who holds a high position at Sony. I was informed that the market in Australia is too small to pay any considerable attention to and that is the reason why Sony needs to increase the price to artificially inflate the market. There are two main factors that would make Sony sit up and listen: 1) population > 300million and 2) the country is not third-world status eg. India would be considered smaller market than Australia despite having a greater population, however the majority of Indians can barely afford such a hardware. Mr. Ephraim is fully aware of Sony price gouging Australian consumers, however he needs to stand by his employer and not allow Sony’s name to be tarnished. In Japanese culture, to show anger equates to being immature, but you can’t blame Mr. Ephraim for spitting the dummy, because the truth hurts. Hence the reason why I’ve stopped purchasing any Sony products for the last 10 years. Prior to the boycott, everything I owned was a Sony. Another reason for the boycott was due to Sony being deceitful and dismissive of MP3 technology because it was a threat to their revenue. Apple took advantage of Sony’s deceit, and ever since then, Sony has consistently failed to even come close to Apples market share in the mp3 department. It’s called “Karma”.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:07:24 +0000

“No one in their industry has ever survived a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, especially not on that scale.” Really? So huge stores like Best Buy and Kmart whom filed ch.11 in recent past didn’t survive? Damn. Guess all the Best Buys and Kmarts are ghosts. Kind of spooky.

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