“Sony Corp plans to cut another 1,000 jobs in its smartphone division, mainly in Europe and China,” Reuters reports, citing Nikkei.
“The cuts are in addition to the 1,000 jobs Sony said it would eliminate in its mobile unit in October,” Reuters reports. “Overall, Sony’s mobile division workforce will shrink by about 30 percent to 5,000 by the end of the fiscal year ending March 2016, the report said.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “M J Miller” for the heads up.]
Sony makes smartphones?
We know that there is no money in the smart phone business.
That much is obvious.
Wonder when Nutella and other nuts at Microsoft will come to that same conclusion at last?
Sony’s mobile division workforce has 5,000 employees? That’s a hell of a lot of people sitting around twiddling their thumbs. I wonder how many people Apple have in their mobile division.
There is Zero employees in Apple’s mobile division, because there is no Apple divisions. There is only one “Startup” Apple, which makes the company so successful.
Sadly, Sony does make good phones.
Water/dust proof, lightly skinned, good hardware and they support them with updates.
I don’t know why they don’t spend anything on advertising.