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By: Sony Stumbles With Blu-ray to PSP Copy | Technologizer

Sony Stumbles With Blu-ray to PSP Copy | Technologizer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:41:44 +0000

[...] are Sony’s. To me, that seems like a backwards step for the company, which in May was professing its newfound love for open systems. Here’s what Sony chief executive Howard Stringer told Nikkei Electronics [...]

By: drew

drew — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:26:02 +0000

I disagree. The Soviets put a great deal of effort into getting a man on the moon between say 1965-1973 or so, but were unable to pull it off.

http://www.fas.org/spp/eprint/lindroos_moon1.htm

The Soviets achieved great leaps forward with a man in space and lunar robots, but the prize was a man on the moon.

By: Bane Unreinen

Bane Unreinen — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:04:21 +0000

hindsight is often 20/20.
Would’ve, could’ve and should’ve.

The simple point is that there are several companies, that had the opportunity to embrace a more open product driven business model.

imho, trying to lock people into a product restricted by hardware choices is a very bad idea.

Hence, I am waiting for OnLive :)

By: Historian

Historian — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:58:26 +0000

2drew: USSR has already beaten US by sending the first man in space; it was not in a hurry to send a man to the moon since it was already sending several robotic space missions to the moon before any American has reached it. To the example would be US could have beaten the USSR by sending the first man in space; but they have not.

The problem with Sony was DRM – remembers the resident programs on DVD that would not allow to copy content? That’s what killed Sony in a race with Apple.

By: Tim Hammond

Tim Hammond — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:51:27 +0000

I wonder if anyone notices that there exists a 5-10 year gap between the technology that apple is producing and everyone else out there? Most of the “latest thing” products that come out of apple have been in development for 5 or more years then it takes microsoft and the rest about 5 more years to create a lame knock-off of the technology that apple created in the first place!
Could have beaten apple? I think not.

By: Sony CEO: We Could Have Beaten Apple | MacRevu

Sony CEO: We Could Have Beaten Apple | MacRevu — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:21:06 +0000

[...] Sony CEO: We Could Have Beaten Apple Technologizer – May 11, 2009 By Jared Newman | Posted at 1:46 pm on Monday, May 11, 2009 Boxing in customers is rarely a good idea, and Sony CEO Howard Stringer says he’s come around to that reasoning. In an interview with … [...]

By: IcyFog

IcyFog — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:16:36 +0000

Open? Sony should install open source software on its computers then I might consider them

By: Sony fretting and fuming about opportunities lost in Digital Music space | TechFever Network | The Hot Tech News and Gadget Network

Tue, 12 May 2009 17:43:40 +0000

[...] the mood Sony CEO Howard Stringer put on when he spoke with Nikkei Electronics Asia about why the company didn’t take open [...]

By: Mike van Lammeren

Mike van Lammeren — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:35:58 +0000

Everything Sony does is about Philips.

In the 1980s, Sony invented the Walkman, which was very much the iPod of its day. However, the cassette tape was created by Philips. How many times did Sony kick themselves for not inventing their own cassette tape, so that they could reap royalties on each unit?

Next, Sony’s CD Walkman was all the rage, playing Compact Discs, also created by Philips.

Everything Sony did after that was about Philips, and about trying to lock in customers to both the hardware device and the medium. First, DAT, then MiniDisc, then Memory Stick, then UMD. Unfortunately, none of those worked out for them!

By: tom b

tom b — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:11:15 +0000

Sony would not have had the expertise to deliver a piece of software as good as iTunes, even if they hired a bunch of people.

Plus, MSFT would have CRUSHED them for daring to compete against the Zune. MSFT has ways of making it painful for Windows vendors who annoy them, though they have to be more subtle about it, post-DoJ.