Only Sony…

People seem to think I have this seething enmity for Sony. It’s just not the case. I have owned many a wonderful Sony product in my life; I just don’t think being the first consumer electronics company (and the biggest — though not anymore!) entitles you to treat your customers with such disregard. Proprietary format after proprietary format, way overpriced devices that are late to the market and typically have only one or two competitive features, etc. And if you think they don’t respect their customers, check out how they are dealing with Tokyo Game Show goers. The shot above was snapped by my main man Vlad at Joystiq, and to me it perfeclty represents the four stages of Sony: chuckling in disbelief, wincing and shaking your head in compunction, sighing in defeat with “Oh, Sony…” and then hoping they won’t have as much hubris tomorrow.
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Why Press in quotation marks? Was that a dig at the bloggers out there saying that they aren’t accredited journalists? Shame on them!
Naw, don’t think so — I’m sure it’s more Engrish than anything else. It’s more the fact that they would treat anyone at all that way that rubs me!
I saw An Inconvenient Truth today. It came out only last week in australia. I couldnt believe that the cinema was packed at 1:15pm on a Sunday. The movie itself was pretty good, but the many shots of gore on his powerbook sorta cheapend the experience for me.
Thanks for convincing me to see it a few moths ago.
I just like how all three icons don’t really look like any modern products at all… Well, other than the reel-to-reel HD DV cam that is…