Sony

Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社, Sonī , commonly known as Sony) is a Japanese  corporation headquartered in Kōnan,. The company operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional, the largest company, the second largest , the second largest , as well as one of the most ,  being the largest Japanese media conglomerate by size overtaking the privately held,  , the largest Japanese media conglomerate by revenue. It has historically been and continues to be a major supplier of components for Apple Inc.

Background
Sony, with its 50 percent market share in the market, is among the semiconductor sales leaders  and, as of 2015, the  in the world by annual sales figures. It is the world's largest player in the premium TV market, a market for a television of at least 55 inches with a price higher than $2,500.

Sony Corporation is the of the Sony Group (ソニー・グループ), which comprises Sony Electronics, Sony Semiconductor Solutions,, , , , and.

The company's slogan is Be Moved. Their former slogans were The One and Only (1979–1982), It's a Sony (1982–2005), like.no.other (2005–2009) and  (2009–2013).

Sony has a weak tie to the (SMFG), the successor to the  group. Sony is listed on the (in which it is a constituent of the  and  Core30 indexes) with an additional listing in the form of  listed in the  (traded since 1970, making it the oldest Japanese company to be listed in an American exchange), and was ranked 122nd on the 2020  list.

History
Sony began in the wake of. In 1946, started an electronics shop in Shirokiya, a department store building in the  area of. The company started with a capital of ¥190,000 and a total of eight employees. On 7 May 1946, Ibuka was joined by to establish a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (東京通信工業, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). The company built Japan's first, called the Type-G. In 1958, the company changed its name to "Sony". The first Sony store in the United States was opened on 5th Avenue in New York City on October 1, 1962.

Apple and Sony
Sony's first interaction with Apple Computer occurred around 1980 when their Silicon Valley district sales manager Dan'l Lewin presented Sony's new 3.5-inch floppy mechanism to the Macintosh team. After some initial resistance, the drive was incorporated into the first Macintosh computer. Lewin himself was recruited by Apple in January 1981. Sony's   displays were used in many of Apple's own color monitors and all-in-one Macintosh models. Sony engineers were also contracted by Apple to help miniaturize the Macintosh Portable to create the PowerBook 100, which was released in October 1991.

In December 2001, Apple CEO Steve Jobs met with Sony president to propose allowing their  laptops to run a secret version of Mac OS X that supported Intel processors. However, the Vaio development team declined. Regardless, Jobs and Andō were known to have admired one another's company work philosophies.

Apple presently uses Sony's imaging sensors for iPhone cameras, most recently the depth-sensing system in the iPhone 12 line.

Articles

 * Do you remember when Sony was Apple? by Steve Guttenberg at C|NET (2012-09-30)