@ D Conference: Stringer: The Guy Trying To Make Sony Less-Sucky: "That’s the impression you get hearing Sony CEO Howard Stringer speak at the D Conference…he knows all of what’s wrong with his company’s products. Very frank and ever ready to admit his company’s faults.
I missed some part of his interview, but some notes from what I heard:
On Da Vinci Code and how it was not liked by critics but liked by viewers: Nobody ever built a statue to a critic
Sony Connect, what went wrong: There was nothing wrong with the aspirations of Connect. It was a Japanese-American two-headed hydra. No one knew who was in charge…the American side thought Japanese side knew the technical expertise and the Japanese side thought Americans knew what they were doing.
I wish we could have WSJ officially podcasting the interviews…this was probably the best interview I’ve heard in a long time, and I got so into listening it that forgot to take notes. Anyway, will link to other bloggers when they have their posts up.
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