Good on Japan. Please create lots of competition, I am utterly FED UP with Apple and Google and bloody American companies ruining all that is fucking decent with the world.
Give me hardware that I own when I buy it. Fully open it up to the end user. No need to hide or gimp it’s power behind proprietary APIs (ie, Metal, lack of OpenGL).
None of these countries do software very well Japan included which makes no sense, modern manufacturing and speedrunning was invented there.
What's obvious is Japan's extreme care for privacy opting for the security of paper based document storage/retrieval.
Also don't like seeing the minting of tech bros that is prevalent in America not really creating value for consumers but wealth for a small group of people.
What exactly do you want out of “lots of competition”?
But your point is moot anyhow; Sony can’t innovate. So they’ll regulate their way back to awesomeness?