Sony to cut number of products

Sony Plans for Fewer, But Better Products - Yahoo! News

Sony is banking on rear-projection TVs, digital music players, and next-generation DVD systems to revitalize its core electronics business, Howard Stringer, the company’s newly appointed chief executive officer, said at a news conference in Tokyo Thursday.

He will also narrow the company’s overall range of products to include only those he thinks Sony can make a profit on, he said in his second day on the job. He did not indicate which of Sony’s many products might be cut.

“A company as big as this one… has to organize its priorities. In the U.K. we call it the law of raspberry jam: the wider the culture is spread, the thinner it is spread,” he said.

Finally! What a smart move! Don’t they have like 32 different iPod competitors right now?

I remember back in the bad old days when Apple had the Performas, the PowerMacs, the this and that. Printers, monitors, scanners - and even clones!

And then Steve Jobs came and cleaned it all up into machines:

Consumer Laptop- iBook
Consumer Desktop- iMac
Professional Laptop- PowerBook
Professional Desktop- PowerMac

oh, and iPod.

The key is to focus on your strengths, instead of constantly trying to fix your weaknesses.