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Sir Howard at Sony shows at least half a clue..

Mr. Stringer admitted Sony has spent too much time worried about its record division and made it too difficult for consumers to buy and copy music. "We tried to have a secure device and that was a myth and a mistake," he commented.

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Mr. Stringer tried to defend his company against its mistakes in the portable music player market by saying, "you can take (the) iPod and beat us over the head with it, but it's only one product and we have thousands of products. Apple has two or three."

On Thursday, Mr. Stringer told a keynote crowd at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that Sony is trying to streamline its business to make it leaner, meaner and more competitive with the likes of Apple and others.

"We have analyzed our product lines and reorganized our corporate structure to become more nimble and better able to deliver champion products," he said. He highlighted several new products the company will soon ship, from a new, music-playing Walkman cellphone to a high definition projector for movie theaters.

Discussion of his 60 Minutes appearance at MacObserver