My Advice to Sony: Innovate - Don't Copy the iPhone

Sony eyes cellphone/game gear hybrid – Nikkei

Hmm… A cellphone that plays games… Sounds like another iPhone wannabe clone to me. Of course, other phones could install and play game apps long before the iPhone: Symbian S60, Windows Mobile, Palm OS and even the now defunct UIQ that Sony used. But, the iPhone is the first platform that really got people to actually buy apps, download, install and use them in large numbers (in terms of both people and apps).

Sony has a long history of innovation: First popular consumer video tape product (Betamax), the Walkman, the Discman (1st portable CD player I heard of), 3.5-inch