The Fall of Giants: Sony and RIM Continue To Lose Ground

I wasn't surprised to hear that both Sony and RIM are spiraling into market irrelevancy. It's been an inevitability since about 2009 that Sony would see declining fortunes and it's been clear for months that RIM is near death. I'm just sad to see both of them go. Sony is losing because it lost the popular imagination. Once upon a time, Sony build solid, popular products for the world. However, with the rise of mobile technology and the ridiculous Sony Ericsson partnership that effectively hobbled Sony in the cellphone race, Sony lost much of its cachet and could make its money in what folks would term "CE" - TVs, sound systems, and the like - leaving little else in terms of high-turnaround items with an acceptable (but not amazing) margin like laptops, phones, and media players.

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