American - Businessman | February 19, 1942 -
The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more and more devices. We need our content to make our services as attractive as Apple's or Amazon's or Microsoft's. We're in a brave new world of fierce competition.
Howard Stringer
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Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.
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Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.
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Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
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Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?
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I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.
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The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.
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The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.
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Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
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People are going to like 3-D in their family photos.
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When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, 'I don't want to buy that.' There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.
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Video games lend themselves completely to 3-D.
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