This is what happens when you have a huge conglomerate. It's like looking after a bunch of children and letting the meanest one always have their way.
So you have Sony Pictures/Music, which brings in millions of dollars in profit, dictating what should or shouldn't be allowed by Sony Consumer Electronics, which does BILLIONS in profit. I don't know how this CEO runs the company without getting fired. But I think I would ask to see the balance sheet of each division before A gets to tell B how to run his business.
This reminds me of the banking situation at the moment. Retail banking has always been profitable and stable, but you have the derivatives department, which is orders of magnitude smaller, and they get to take all the profits and piss it away on junk.
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This is what happens when you have a huge conglomerate. It's like looking after a bunch of children and letting the meanest one always have their way.
So you have Sony Pictures/Music, which brings in millions of dollars in profit, dictating what should or shouldn't be allowed by Sony Consumer Electronics, which does BILLIONS in profit. I don't know how this CEO runs the company without getting fired. But I think I would ask to see the balance sheet of each division before A gets to tell B how to run his business.
This reminds me of the banking situation at the moment. Retail banking has always been profitable and stable, but you have the derivatives department, which is orders of magnitude smaller, and they get to take all the profits and piss it away on junk.