Sony is almost exactly 1/10th the size of Apple (in terms of Market Cap). Don't underestimate just how much weight Apple is throwing around these days.
Sonly also doesn't fab their own processors for mobile devices like Apple now does.
> Sony is almost exactly 1/10th the size of Apple (in terms of Market Cap).
Sony is also 130% the size of Apple in terms of revenue, 180% the size of Apple in terms of assets and 340% the size of Apple in terms of employees headcount.
> Sonly also doesn't fab their own processors for mobile devices like Apple now does.
Apple does not fab their own processors (for mobile devices or otherwise), and — up to the A4 anyway — don't have that much input into them (the A4 is almost of-the-shelf, we'll have to see for the A5 but so far there's been no great works there)
> Sony is also 130% the size of Apple in terms of revenue, 180% the size of Apple in terms of assets and 340% the size of Apple in terms of employees headcount.
Which suggests that Sony makes ~39% of the revenue per employee that Apple does.
Sonly also doesn't fab their own processors for mobile devices like Apple now does.