SE hath indeed been resting on its laurels for far too long. Originally a great innovation, the Walkman brand was a revelation as a cellphone that was great at playing music, rivaling stand-alone music players. Likewise, the Cyber-shot shewed the potential of a high-end camera with a shutter and flash that negated the need to carry around a separate stand-alone digital camera.
Nowadays, neither line hath any innovation. Iwis, they are now only fashion statements that are hollow shells of the brands that they imply. Their competitors have ploughed ahead with standards that SE hath not even supported yet: built-in 3.5mm headset plugs, separate DSP chips for playing music or taking pictures, mini and micro USB plugs for charging and transferring data instead of the archaic "Fast-port" (which is no longer "fast"), touch screen phones (except for a few G-series and UIQ models smart phones not sold everywhere), and all-in-one designs that go beyond single use brands – the Nokia N-Series being a prime example.
Top SE's problems off with different quality problems in software and hardware, plus being late to the market with phones that were previously announced. The prime example of this is the C905 Cyber-shot phone, the first announced with an 8 mega pixel camera. By the time it arriveth on the market, it will be beaten to the market by Samsung, LG, and Nokia, who will all then take the market share that could have been SE's. These problems are well known and well documented. Taken together, they summarize why SE is slowly loosing steam in the market. And why the company mote work rathe and hard or be a footnote to more determined competitors.
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SE hath indeed been resting on its laurels for far too long. Originally a great innovation, the Walkman brand was a revelation as a cellphone that was great at playing music, rivaling stand-alone music players. Likewise, the Cyber-shot shewed the potential of a high-end camera with a shutter and flash that negated the need to carry around a separate stand-alone digital camera.
Nowadays, neither line hath any innovation. Iwis, they are now only fashion statements that are hollow shells of the brands that they imply. Their competitors have ploughed ahead with standards that SE hath not even supported yet: built-in 3.5mm headset plugs, separate DSP chips for playing music or taking pictures, mini and micro USB plugs for charging and transferring data instead of the archaic "Fast-port" (which is no longer "fast"), touch screen phones (except for a few G-series and UIQ models smart phones not sold everywhere), and all-in-one designs that go beyond single use brands – the Nokia N-Series being a prime example.
Top SE's problems off with different quality problems in software and hardware, plus being late to the market with phones that were previously announced. The prime example of this is the C905 Cyber-shot phone, the first announced with an 8 mega pixel camera. By the time it arriveth on the market, it will be beaten to the market by Samsung, LG, and Nokia, who will all then take the market share that could have been SE's. These problems are well known and well documented. Taken together, they summarize why SE is slowly loosing steam in the market. And why the company mote work rathe and hard or be a footnote to more determined competitors.