[cookiecaper]

The interview with John Sculley indicates that Jobs has always had a great admiration for "the Sony way" and patterned early Apple processes after processes Jobs et al observed at the Sony factory.

As we keep that in mind and notice that Apple has converged into the consumer electronics space, which Sony had locked up back in the days of Walkman, Sony starts to make sense as a potential Apple interest. Perhaps Jobs feels that Sony infrastructure that he so admired is still lingering under the dust of wayward big-corporate management, caked on as Sony grew beyond good managerial capacity.

Apple is pretty big now and has been able to maintain that. Sony could go far in Jobs' hands.

[p0ppe]

It wouldn't be the first time Apple and Sony have cooperated; http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

[maguay]

Actually, I wonder if the rumor isn't more sparked from the Sculley interview than the earnings call. At any rate, it got Apple + Sony in people's minds.