Corporate Arrogance

09 Jul 2007 10:27 (Edited: 09 Jul 2007 10:27)

So Sony finally announced a price drop for the PS3. What I find much more interesting is how Sony president Ryoji Chubachi was able to lie about it with a straight face. If he really thought people were buying this line he was the one person being fooled. But I guess that's par for the course for Sony. It seems like they're in the news daily, but most of the time it's not for cutting prices or making deals. It's normally to defend a proprietary format they refuse to part with (no matter how much money they lose on it), apologizing for something stupid some corporate rep said, or flat out lying.

New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said "You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.� It seems that most corporations could learn something from this quote. Now, it's bad enough when you can say that you should learn something from a Washington politician, but how much worse is it that the only people who seem to believe the "facts" presented by these companies are their own executives?

Don't get me wrong. I'm not singling out Sony because they're the only offender. In fact they're just the easiest target because they're the most publicly arrogant of the bunch, but they have plenty of company. The bottom line is, no matter how many statements you release and laws you pay for, reality doesn't change. If you want to make money you'd better be selling something consumers either need or want. As the old expression goes, "Shit or get off the pot." But don't cry foul when your sales go south because nobody wants whatever garbage you're selling, especially when you're one of the biggest corporations in the world, and could have seen it coming if you weren't too busy burying your head in the sand to watch the world pass you by.

Corporate Arrogance

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