Sony

Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社, Sonī , commonly known as Sony) is a Japanese corporation headquartered in Kōnan, ."Access & Map." Sony Global. Retrieved 6 December 2011. "1–7–1 Konan Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075, Japan" – Map – Address in Japanese: "〒108-0075 東京都港区港南1–7–1"20-F (FY2015) pages 1, 25 and F-2, Sony Corporation The company operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional , the largest company, the second largest , the second largest , as well as one of the most , being the largest Japanese media conglomerate by size overtaking the privately held, , the largest Japanese media conglomerate by revenue. It has historically been and continues to be a major supplier of components for Apple Inc.
==Background==
Sony, with its 50 percent market share in the market, is among the semiconductor sales leaders and, as of 2015, the in the world by annual sales figures. It is the world's largest player in the premium TV market, a market for a television of at least 55 inches with a price higher than $2,500.
Sony Corporation is the of the Sony Group (ソニー・グループ), which comprises Sony Electronics, Sony Semiconductor Solutions, , , , , and .
The company's slogan is Be Moved. Their former slogans were The One and Only (1979–1982), It's a Sony (1982–2005), like.no.other (2005–2009) and (2009–2013).
Sony has a weak tie to the (SMFG) , the successor to the group. Sony is listed on the (in which it is a constituent of the and Core30 indexes) with an additional listing in the form of listed in the (traded since 1970, making it the oldest Japanese company to be listed in an American exchange), and was ranked 122nd on the 2020 list.
==History==
Sony began in the wake of . In 1946, started an electronics shop in Shirokiya, a department store building in the area of . The company started with a capital of ¥190,000 and a total of eight employees. On 7 May 1946, Ibuka was joined by to establish a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (東京通信工業, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). The company built Japan's first , called the Type-G. In 1958, the company changed its name to "Sony". The first Sony store in the United States was opened on 5th Avenue in New York City on October 1, 1962.About Sony: Chapter 13, Sony Corporation. Accessed 2021-02-01.
===Apple and Sony===
Sony's first interaction with Apple Computer occurred around 1980 when their Silicon Valley district sales manager Dan'l Lewin presented Sony's new 3.5-inch floppy mechanism to the Macintosh team. After some initial resistance, the drive was incorporated into the first Macintosh computer. Lewin himself was recruited by Apple in January 1981.Dan'l Lewin, LinkedIn. Accessed 2020-06-13.Quick, Hide In This Closet! by Andy Hertzfeld, Folklore. 1983-08. Sony's displays were used in many of Apple's own color monitors and all-in-one Macintosh models. Sony engineers were also contracted by Apple to help miniaturize the Macintosh Portable to create the PowerBook 100, which was released in October 1991.PowerBook 100: How Sony Perfectly Miniaturized the 16 Pound Macintosh Portable by Leo Titus LeBron V, Low End Mac. 2007-08-08.
In December 2001, Apple CEO Steve Jobs met with Sony president to propose allowing their laptops to run a secret version of Mac OS X that supported Intel processors. However, the Vaio development team declined. Regardless, Jobs and Andō were known to have admired one another's company work philosophies.The backstory: Sony’s 2001 offer from Steve Jobs to run Mac OS on Vaio laptops by Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac. 2014-02-05.
Apple presently uses Sony's imaging sensors for iPhone cameras, most recently the depth-sensing system in the iPhone 12 line.Exclusive: The iPhone 12 Pro camera will use Sony’s lidar technology by Mark Sullivan, Fast Company. 2020-09-03.
==References==
==External links==
*Sony official site
**Sony.net corporate site
* at Wikipedia
===Articles===
*Do you remember when Sony was Apple? by Steve Guttenberg at C|NET (2012-09-30)
 
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