“Sony Corp.’s once-dominant personal music player business is struggling against Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod despite the introduction of new models over the past year, Sony president Ryoji Chubachi said,” Yukari Iwatani Kane reports for The Wall Street Journal.
Kane reports, “Sony’s Walkman digital music players failed to meet their initial target for the past year, Mr. Chubachi told reporters. He declined to describe a strategy to bounce back over rest of the year. ‘We miscalculated with the Walkman,’ he said.”
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