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My entire take on the Sony issue is they don't seem to play well with others. They do a very good job on the design and user interface side. Sony is usually the first to put new ideas into technology that everyone else soon copies. However take a look at the long list of sony developed technology that never got licensed to other manufacturers of which beta-max was the biggest oops on their part. Sony is great product for a premium price, but easily distracted by the next challenge in technology integration.
My experience is that sony all to often decides that the technology they developed is a dead end and then moves on dropping all support.
The other thing they have a tend to do is release a product and then release its successor in a very short period of time (CD and minidisc) CD's killed minidisc because it came out way to soon after everyone had changed from cassettes to CD.
In essence, Sony great technology, not the best business practices.
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