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Panasonic, Sony and Sharp struggling
  • SuperSetSuperSet

    Relevant WaPo article about how Samsung and Apple are thriving while some Japanese firms are tanking, including Panasonic. Hopefully, this won't affect DSLR availability but it does say that Panasonic's losing money.

    "he pace of problems is accelerating. Sony hasn’t made a profit in four years. Panasonic has lost money in three of the past four. Along with Sharp, the companies’ combined market value, according to Bloomberg, is $32 billion — making them one-fifth the value of Samsung and one-twentieth the value of Apple."

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/as-apple-and-samsung-dominate-japans-tech-giants-are-in-a-free-fall/2012/09/28/04c6eb36-0944-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_story.html?hpid=z2

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  • bwhitzbwhitz

    Looks like all that product tier-ing and collectively planning markets is catching up to them...

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    combined market value, according to Bloomberg, is $32 billion — making them one-fifth the value of Samsung and one-twentieth the value of Apple."

    Here we must start to laugh. Loudly.

  • driftwooddriftwood

    If you take away the financial downturn, Pany's problems relate to restructuring, buying a controlling interest in Sanyo from 2008, and, like other Japanese companies, the fallout from the tsunami. Apple and Samsung have it good at the moment, around the corner, who knows? Survival? Good leadership, hard work, market knowledge and innovation shows you a company's mettle. Apple know all about that. What goes around comes around.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @driftwood

    Pany's problems relate to restructuring, buying a controlling interest in Sanyo from 2008, and, like other Japanese companies, the fallout from the tsunami.

    Nope, problems are fundamental, and do not come from tsunami. They can be seen among all japanese companies.

    Apple and Samsung have it good at the moment, around the corner, who knows? Survival? Good leadership, hard work, market knowledge and innovation shows you a company's mettle. Apple know all about that. What goes around comes around.

    Apple is not a company, really, as it is US PR project.
    As for samsung, you can check book reference I provided in blog not long itme ago.

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