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Originally Posted by cfo
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But, what makes me leery is that Sony has a bad track record of abandoning some products if they don't sell well or just go the way of the Dodo for whatever reason. Like the Sony Clies and MiniDisc.
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Agreed. Sony is a very odd company that has never been one to rely on long term. I was one of those caught by the whole PalmOS PDA abandonment. They did still provide support for a fairly long time though, it was either 4 or 6 years as I remember. Might have been less but my company never needed that much support. As i remember it was the software vendors and developers I used who got left out in the cold sooner than we end users did.
But for personal use I really don't mind too much if it's a consumption based thing I don't mind only being able to use for 4 maybe 5 or 6 years. I will never again put my business in the hands of a company like Sony though. Of course even Palm went teats-up so who is to say. And ya know even HP is doping odd things these days as well. I feel a lot of HP's histrionics is about marketing spin and making shareholders feel something is actively being done to help keep the stock up.