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- From: petsalo@lut.fi (Jyrki Petsalo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Can AT Surfer compete with Apple/Disney?
- Date: 18 Feb 1996 10:50:09 +0200
- Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
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- In-reply-to: earthstar@grumpy.magg.net's message of 17 Feb 1996 11:58:43 -0500
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- >I recently had a 'discussion' with a friend who has some connection with
- >Sony. He said that Sony and many other companies have a philosophy or
- >even a policy that they WILL NOT license technology from others. They
- >prefer to pay BIG bux to engineer types to develop the same or simular
- >technology. (We were talking about the advantages to Sony of grabbing
- >the Surfer package for NA marketing).
-
- Well I have a Sony CM-DX1000 GSM phone in front of me right now, and it
- looks and feels very much like the Siemens developed S4 phone. I think
- only thing Siemens got from Sony on that deal (besides money) was the
- Lithium battery. Sounds Sony makes exceptions on that strategy, if the
- market is big enough and the technology is complex enough.
-
- -JP
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