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Originally Posted by slayda
So instead they make their first customers eat the cost if they want to upgrade. I, for one, will not ever buy another Sony product because of this. We supported them by buying a new, rather expensive, untried product and for our support (which BTW showed the product to be viable) they turn around ad screw us. Bad, bad business decision.  |
As I said in another thread, it strikes me as a bit presumptuous to assume that a vendor is under some obligation to subsidize the upgrade of two-year-old hardware sold and purchased in good faith. I don't expect HP to offer me a trade-in on my (circa 1972) HP-35 calculator, for instance.
I figure that the almost 2 years of use I've gotten out of it in the meantime is worth
something ... isn't it? Shouldn't I expect to pay for that use?
Frankly, I can
still use it just as it is (and plan to!
) -- I just can't start using epub and reflowing PDF files on it is all. In other words, it does exactly what it did when I got it in the first place. And those of us who bought it evidently felt the price was fair at the time, and I rather doubt that we believed that the hardware would always be sufficient for any and all future advances ....
I don't understand how it's Sony's responsibility to pay me something for it just because there's a new model that will do more, and they couldn't see into the future well enough to build a product that would handle all future upgrade demands. Especially when, as you note, that hardware was pretty pricey to begin with.
I really,
really wish that these new features were on my 500 myself, but they're not, and it looks like they
can't be, but I decline to blame Sony for not predicting what couldn't be predicted in the first place.
