Sony CEO, Sir Howard Stringer set tongues wagging over the weekend with a seemingly throw away comment about Apple during an interview.
In conversation with the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg at an event in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Stringer said that ‘It always puzzles me,’ adding ‘Why would I make Apple the best camera?’
Sony is not a known supplier of sensors for cameras in Apple products, leading some to speculate that the ‘camera’ Stringer referred to will be a component in an unannounced Apple product.
According to one attendee at the event, Stringer then explained that Sony’s production of camera sensors in its plant in Sendai had been affected by the Japanese earthquake and that it would cause a delay in shipping components to Apple and others.
Sensors for iPhone and iPad 2 cameras are currently manufactured by OmniVision but twelve months ago, The Street reported that Apple had ditched OmniVision in favour of a Sony eight-megapixel sensor for the iPhone 5.
Stringer later told an audience member, who he had seen holding and iPad, to ‘be careful it doesn’t burn you if you wave it around,’ according to the Journal.
