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Originally Posted by NatCh
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.  |
I don't expect them to change their ways. As I said in another thread, how long before they abandon the 505 & leave it's users high & dry. Also it was less than 2 years when Sony abandoned the 500. I got mine in Sept. 06, less than 2 years ago & I got mine very soon after it was introduced. And your HP-35 was the top of the line for more than 2 years I think before HP introduced the 45. I have no faith in Sony continuing to support their customers based on their past performance. They used us a test subjects for their new product - pure & simple.