Sony re-enters the fray with an iPad competitor that is a reader, netbook, game device, and coffee maker
8 March 2010
Sony's version of Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos
The onslaught of ereading devices expected in the wake of Apple’s iPad launch has begun. As a Wall Street Journal story by Daisuke Wakabayashi and Yukari Iwatani Kane reports, “Threatened by Apple Inc.’s growing stable of portable devices, Sony Corp. is developing a new lineup of handheld products,” including “a portable device that shares characteristics of netbooks, electronic-book readers and handheld-game machines. The device is designed to compete against multifunction products such as Apple’s coming iPad tablet ….”