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Originally Posted by rcentros
I agree with you here. Sony even had their own proprietary memory cards.
I didn't even realize that the 950 was made in Japan instead of China until you mentioned it. I like the 950's build quality, but I'm thinking it might be too big to use much. I've been reading a book by alternating between the 350 and 950 and, even though I like the 950's two column view, over all I like the 350 better. So small and easy to carry. The 950 feels almost like holding a tablet. A sleek, light tablet, but still a tablet.
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Agreed. I worked for a US corporation who tried the same thing in the personal computer field, Xerox. Xerox Parc in Palo Alto invented the GUI which was copied by both Apple for the Mac and by Microsoft for Windows. Xerox tried to market the operating system and a proprietary computer called the Xerox Star to run it for too much money compared to the IBM PC only to have both the Mac and Widows undercut them big time on price. While the Mac was semi proprietary, Apple encouraged software developers, something Xerox did not do. Xerox wanted the whole pie and ended up with pie on the face. Microsoft actively encouraged software developers to write Windows applications. Guess who won!
You would think they would have learned earlier as they tried much the same with a CP/M computer that they came out with about the same time as the IBM PC. They introduced a new CP/M computer almost simultaneously with the computer that killed CP/M as an operating system. Lost a bundle on it.