Sony's Foolish Failure to Learn From Microsoft's MistakeMicrosoft has learned a lot of very hard lessons over the last couple of decades, and it continues to surprise and annoy me that other firms seem to have the suicidal tendency to learn the same lessons the hard way. It is far better and cheaper to avoid the mistakes of others, but firms like Apple, Google and, most recently, Sony seem to want to experience past Microsoft disasters first hand.
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Sony's Foolish Failure to Learn From Microsoft's Mistake