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Originally Posted by twowheels
Typical Sony. Make awesome hardware, and really garbage software that tries to lock you into their ecosystem and forces you to use said garbage hardware to use their amazing hardware.
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This is actually symptomatic of the entire Japanese electronics industry. The prevailing attitude is that hardware is king and software is just an afterthought. Software development is often outsourced and minimal resources are devoted to it.
Failure to adapt to software is one of the reasons why Japan fell behind South Korea and China after dominating tech during the 80s and 90s.
This video goes in depth on the subject:
https://youtu.be/GqMSWuSeDPA
My very first e-reader was a Sony PRS-505 which I still have fond memories of. It was slim and lightweight, better than the early Kindles and I had high hopes that Sony would build upon it’s success, but sadly they faded away in the e-reader space.