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Battery Recalls A Blow to Sony's Recovery
Yasser writes to mention the fallout from yet another Sony battery recall. Sony's stock hit a one-month low today on the news that they'd be pulling over a million batteries off the market. The recall is expected to have little impact financially, but has prompted the Japanese government into ordering Sony to look into the battery problem. From that article: "The ministry instructed the two companies to investigate the safety of Dell models Latitude, Inspiron and Precision and report on their findings by the end of August, the ministry said. Earlier this month, problems with battery cells supplied by Sony forced Dell to recall an unprecedented 4.1 million laptop batteries in the United States. "
Really, I'm sorry that your profits - that you earned so hard by putting out piles of junk - now get eaten into by recalling said junk.
Who came up with the idea anyway, that products must not harm the customer? Sheesh, won't somebody think of the profits!
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After having read all of the coverage here on Slashdot, I'm confident Sony will make this up with the overwhelming future success of the PS3.
Did Sony supply Apple with their crappy batteries, too?
strongbad says, "hey, my laptop asplode!"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Well, i personally havn't had any problems with the sony battery in my laptdjsaDASDJAShd NO CARRIER
Sony's been having one-month lows every single month?!?! Sell!!!
If Sony keeps stepping on their dicks with golf shoes, pretty soon they won't be able to screw their customers anymore.
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
Yeah, he's British born in that first sentence, but he continues "to becoming the first US born CEO of a major Japanese firm." That's kind of an impressive feat.
>My Jaguar was a beautiful car, but had the most bizarre set of problems I've ever heard of (a door and sunroof that opened only when they were in the right mood, occasionally working headlights, etc.)
I don't know much about the newer models, but this sort of thing is considered normal behavior for British cars of the 50s,60s, and 70s. The proper mental attitude to take is to look on it a charming quirkiness when your headlamps go out at night in a driving rainstorm. Of course, you are already used to the fact that the wipers work beautifully until it starts raining, when they quit. This attitude keeps you from shooting holes in the engine block and setting the thing on fire.
It used to be an article of faith among my fellow Triumph, MG, Austin-Healy and Jaguar drivrers that Lucas electrical systems were designed by Satan. Anything electrical worked on a purely random schedule, perhaps, as you suspect, influenced by the moon. On the bright side, major FUBAR situations could often be remedied by a nice wash and wax or rotating the tires.
I always thought that the British engineers' idea was that their cars were supposed to be fun, but unpredictable. I you wanted dependable transportation, you were supposed to take the train.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.