Wired reports on the internal ‘civil war’ at Sony, where the company that invented the Walkman needs to deal with the fact that the iPod is its 21st century equivalent. The development of products that play digital media competes directly with Sony as a media company.
If companies like Sony try to stifle product development to try and preserve the status quo between media and media players that existed with analog formats they will lose. If they don’t, they will also lose.