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Originally Posted by The Alternative
Not to totally disagree with you but Sony has many more proven reliable products then the short list of failures you mentioned. I personally love my Sony Readers and the Sony Walkman was, for all intents and purposes, the first real portable music player. As for Apple, need I remind anyone of the Lisa, Pippin, or Cyberdog? Most large electronic companies have had their fair share of failures. It's the succesful products that intrique me.
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please re-read what i wrote. i never said sony wasn't reliable. i said sony has a history if inventing their own scheme for things that go against market trends. minidiscs when everyone was on cd's (not that sony didn't have their own cd players). ATRAC format when everyone was using MP3 files. memory sticks when everyone else was on CF and SD. UMD? it's these incompatibilities with more common formats that hurt sony's adoption in the market place.
if sony had built digital players that used the mp3 format when apple started first cranking out ipods they could have owned, or at least shared the market. instead they pumped out players using sony's proprietary ATRAC format, with a horrible conversion program that ran on windows only and only supported sony memory sticks. UMD movie discs were yet another format that retailers had to stock on shelves. Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo anyone? or any of the other half dozen models with tongue-twister names?
sony is great at 2 things: 1. copying others designs and 2. miniaturization. they really should stick to those and let others invent new formats.