Chapter 1722
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Softbank contacted Sony and the rest of the companies and waited for their reply. They felt Sony and the rest of the companies will not reject this offer.
Sony and the rest of the companies are also considering this offer. Although they are consumer electronics companies, they are not going to stop developing software.
Also, their cooperation with Softbank is not to develop software sales. It is to let Softbank's subsidiaries develop suitable software for their electronic products, and both parties will promote each other.
Norio Ohga and the rest of the Japanese electronics giants sat together to discuss how to proceed. Although they had always been competitors, they had always maintained a cooperative relationship.
Panasonic is the leader in the flat screen TV industry, especially in plasma technology. They have the most market share. But they still managed to pull Sony into their camp to suppress the rest of the brands.
They also have a lot of cooperation in digital cameras, digital video cameras, etc. They even have a lot of cooperation in the field of digital storage.
Both companies use their own brands to compete with each other and have their own core technologies. But for some less important technologies, both companies will work together to develop them. This way, they can save a lot of R&D costs, and at the same time, they can complete their products faster.
The rest of the electronics giants had started to manufacture digital cameras and plasma TVs, but none of them can compete with Sony and Panasonic.
"Everyone, I believe Sun Zhengyi had contacted all of you. What do you all think?" Norio Ohga asked.
Panasonic's President is not happy. Why are you the first to speak? You make it sound like you are the one in charge of this meeting. Is Sony more powerful than Panasonic?
"What do you all think?" Panasonic's President asked.
"I think this cooperation is fine, but Sony will not invest in this company." Norio Ohga replied calmly.
Not investing in this company? That means Sony will lose the right to speak? Is Norio Ohga's brain damaged? How can he hand over all his power to others?
The rest of the Japanese electronics giants looked at Norio Ohga. In the past, Sony was very eager to invest in this company and even wanted to be the major shareholder. Why did Sony give up on investing in this company?
Norio Ohga saw everyone's confused looks and explained. "Softbank wants to expand their paid download website, and they need to understand their competitors. There are similar websites in the US and Europe. I am more interested in Lenovo Kingsoft's website. "
The rest of the people were puzzled. Although Lenovo Kingsoft had grown rapidly in the past few years, it was only ranked third in the software industry. Feng Yu had overtaken Europe, but still slightly behind Microsoft and IBM.
You don't even care about Europe and America, but you care about Hua Xia? Wasn't this putting the cart before the horse?
Panasonic's President suddenly laughed. "Norio Ohga, I think you are frightened by Feng Yu."
That's right. Norio Ohga or Sony had suffered a lot from Feng Yu. Many of Sony's products are similar to Wind and Rain's products, and their market share is not as high as Wind and Rain's products.
Sony can be considered the best among the electronic giants in the entertainment industry and is one of the top in Asia. But Feng Yu had spent more than 10 billion USD to acquire MGM, Lucas, and Marvel. After that, he also spent a lot of money to sign a few famous directors.
Even the actors and actresses were offered contracts for many movies, and the investment for each movie was higher than the previous one. Sony had tried to stop Feng Yu's < Iron Man > this year. So many film companies had joined hands to tarnish Iron Man's reputation, and in the end, Feng Yu created an online cinema.
The box office earnings of < Iron Man > exceeded 600 million USD, and it is still not released. The final box office earnings will exceed 700 million USD.
Those film companies can only negotiate with Feng Yu, but they cannot ask Feng Yu to stop this online cinema. In the end, both sides will reach a compromise.
The other film companies will also adopt this online cinema model in the future to increase their profits.
Sony had acquired IBM's PC business, but Lenovo Group is still the leader in the PC market. It can be said that Sony had never gained any advantage from Feng Yu.
This time, Sony is going up against Feng Yu's company again, and they are scared.
The rest of the electronics giants looked at Norio Ohga with disdain. As the President of Japan's electronics giant, he has no fighting spirit. It seems that Sony's growth had slowed down in the past two years because of this cowardly Norio Ohga.
Norio Ohga saw the looks on these people's faces, but he remained calm. Because Sony and Feng Yu's companies are competitors and even enemies, they understand Feng Yu's companies better.
Norio Ohga knows what Matsushita and the rest are thinking. It's just that Wind and Rain did not introduce any new products in the past six months.
Do they really think Wind and Rain does not have any new technologies?
Someone even said that Wind and Rain had been investing in the automobile, retail, and financial sectors recently and did not focus on other businesses. But no one will give up on Wind and Rain, the world's top electronics and home appliances brand, right?
Even if Wind and Rain did not introduce any new products, their old models are still selling well. The higher the production, the lower the average cost. This is a simple logic.
That's why Wind and Rain's profits did not drop. How can they not have money to invest in new products?
From Norio Ohga's point of view, Wind and Rain must be accumulating their strength and preparing to introduce some new technologies to surpass their competitors.
Sony had used this strategy before. It was obvious that no one else had considered these questions.
After Matsushita's President said this, Pioneer's President smiled. The other Japanese electronics giants' representatives also did not stand on ceremony.
Norio Ohga looked at Pioneer's President with disdain in his heart. In the past, all of you had continued to develop LD, and this year, you all can't take it anymore and announced that you are stopping production.
You all had completed the last batch of orders, and you all are not going to continue? I had told you all to focus on HD DVDs in the past, but you all did not listen to me. This caused our technologies to not reach the desired effect, and most of the profits were taken away by Wind and Rain Home Appliances.
LD is a backward format and is destined to be eliminated. Why are you all persisting?
The other companies' representatives are laughing at Sony. To Norio Ohga, these companies are the same as Pioneer. The final result will show who is the fool!
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