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		jimbokun 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros > Most notably Sony which produced TVs, Computers, DVD players, Media Centers. The answer to that one is simple: they were bad at software. Apple and then Android killed the market for all those hardware devices and physical media.

djtango 3 days ago [–]

Maybe but they were still good enough to in house a whole bunch of dev - console OS, games, mobile OS, various forms of content distribution...

jimbokun 3 days ago | [–]

Not good enough.

Apple and Google were much, much better at it.

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