Sony owns 50.7% of Aiwa, but has allowed for a fair amount of independence in product development. Up til now, it seems that Aiwa chooses for themselves whether they want to clone/borrow from Sony or not. For instance, the F80 has Sony ATRAC but also uses a D/A A/D converter from Philips. Aiwa (to the best of my knowledge) has not chosen to license G-protection from Sony, either - something that would work to their advantage in several ways. The relationship is quite like the Matsushita/JVC relationship: the "owner" allows the smaller company considerable freedom as long as they target a different piece of the pie. Based on examples from other industries, Aiwa may either borrows Sony's R&D results, or specialize in a specific area (e.g. portables). There are certainly other choices for them, too. Leon on 3/26/01 7:43 PM, las at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Leon wrote: > >> I wanted to post this because it fits with the idea that Aiwa will be >> increasingly cloning Sony products in the near future. >> > > Doesn't Sony own part or all of Aiwa? > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word > "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
