Sony vs. iTunes

iTunes

Sony has announced a new service it says will rival Apple's iTunes (LOL). If I didn't know better, I'd say C.E.O. Howard Stringer was smoking something when he issued that quote. Sony is so delusional, as nothing in their company comes close to anything at Apple.

Howard Stringer

In other news, Sony's stock continues to fall, along with sales, as Stringer keeps getting rid of jobs and departments, as the solution to the problem, instead of actually coming up with original products, rather than what they currently do, stealing everyone else's and slapping the Sony logo on it.

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Sony Unveils Its Answer to Apple's iTunes

November 19, 2009, 10:11AM EST - Sony (SNE) is taking a page from Apple's playbook (AAPL). On Nov. 19, Sony said it plans to launch an online store selling music, movies, and books as well as other downloadable applications for mobile products. Sony's top executives didn't specify when the Internet store, tentatively called Sony Online Service, would go live or what it would look like. But the online storefront, announced at a management strategy meeting in Tokyo, is likely to bear some similarities to Apple's iTunes store and would be Sony's most ambitious attempt to link its products to its own vast library of digital content...

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