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Will Sony ever turn it around?

article published on 31 July, 2014

Sony has issued yet another warning, following slow sales of its smartphones, now claiming that the company will not make a profit on its smartphone division for the year. For the quarter ended June 30th, total operating profit doubled, thanks mainly to strong PlayStation sales and asset sales, but its smartphone sales forecast dropped severely, with the company now expecting to break ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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_ 		1. August 2014 @ 14:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sony has become largely irrelevant and that's sad!

As for the TV division scoring a profit for the first time in a decade............this will be short-lived for them. Any company that perseveres through a decade of no profit is BOUND to eventually make a little bit of one in the course of 10 years so this news is meritless.
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Bozobub
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_ 		1. August 2014 @ 17:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sony is simply reaping the "benefits" of their piss-poor customer service, lazy design, poor customer data protection, and other sehaningans. I still have bitter memories of the 55" rear-projection LCD TV I bought from them, which then warped the lamp housing and damaged the vision block due to sheer bad design. *spits* The customer-service calls were enraging.
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Jemborg
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_ 		2. August 2014 @ 08:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So they have a lot of phone stock to get rid of... at least cut your losses and unload them at bargain rates... hint hint.
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brockie
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_ 		2. August 2014 @ 19:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
they have just made a profit for the quarter of 260m? when they expected a loss. you seem to have turned this into a downer story when it was actuary a good start to the year for Sony.
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GryphB
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_ 		2. August 2014 @ 20:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm okay with Sony taking a dump.
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_ 		4. August 2014 @ 01:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by brockie:
 they have just made a profit for the quarter of 260m? when they expected a loss. you seem to have turned this into a downer story when it was actuary a good start to the year for Sony.
There is nowhere in the story that says Sony made a profit of any kind.
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