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Originally Posted by molman
I don't really understand this comment. You got a product that was, what it was when you purchased it. The Clie's all supported the Palm apps for their associated version. The MiniDisk SONY probably supported for an astonishingly long time - well after it was obvious that it was a dead format. I believe it came out in the early 90's and continued just this year.
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See last comment. There is really not much to understand.
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Originally Posted by molman
Anyway these products look interesting. Not a fan of the proprietary power cable (why can't you use mini-USB SONY?).
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Micro-USB is not proprietary. The Kindle also uses it. Mini-USB is pretty old and I'm seeing less and less products actually using it.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I really don't think that you can say that the Clie was "abandoned"; they were sold for many years. They were only stopped when PalmOS itself died.
Even MiniDisc was sold for a good number of years. I still have a Sony MiniDisc player.
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Perhaps I used the wrong examples. I never had a Clie or a MiniDisc player as those were before my time. But on other forums, when the topic of Sony comes up, I have often seen people discussing how Sony will develop or adopt a new type of product, only to cut short its production or support.
The PSP Go would've been a better, more recent example with which I'm familiar. Don't get me wrong, I am a Sony fan with a PSP, Playstation 2, and Playstation 3. I just don't want to get burned like other people who were early adopters of the PSP Go.