I was surprised to see Sony's Howard Stringer say that Sony's turnaround effort "is centered around tapping younger software engineers to boost product development".
The move is expected to strengthen product offerings because younger engineers are more familiar with the digital age, and because software development is becoming more important for gadgets, Stringer told reporters in Tokyo.
That's a healthy sign since in my humble opinion Sony's software, with the exception of the PlayStation and PSP's is real crap.
Stripping all the crud off your VIAO is the first task of anyone buying those machines - of course a lot of that baggage isn't Sony's but that that is only adds to the incompatible cludge of half-baked Sony software.
The same article quotes Sony President Ryoji Chubachi, saying "We had become self-indulgent in growing smug in our technological powers".
That's true - but smugness is probably not the cause of the software cludge that Sony turns out - its just incompetence from an engineering company who has grown from conscious competence in engineering products to unconscious incompetence in engineering software.
It's a not uncommon disease - look at Motorola, Nokia, GM, Siemens - they all suffer from it as well.
Somehow from Sony I expected more, but that was before I experienced my first two VIAOs! Why did I buy two, when I was disappointed with the first - - good question - because I expected more from Sony!! Fool I am.
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