[pphilipp]

Interesting forum. I've owned numerous Sony products for about forty years... several TVs, VCRs, tape decks, audio, etc. But I've never owned a Sony computer. In the electronics world Sony is one of the biggest, best innovators to ever step into the arena, but when it comes to their computers, they have only been 'ho-hum' at best. if they had taken the Apple route and offered a completely different alternative to mainstream Windows, something no one else offered, perhaps we would have taken notice. But they took the cautious well travelled road, and it's easy to see why.

Too many times Sony released high quality products that consumers skirted over. We often went with inferior specs on a cheaper, lessor competitor. Again, unlike Apple, Sony consistently demonstrated that they did not know how to market. Many times they had the best product out there but they didn't know how to convey that to consumers. I believe Sony got to the point they were afraid to innovate.