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That's my biggest reservation about Sony products. They treat software and computers like consumer electronics that are expected to function with a fixed featur
by cptskippy 8y ago
That's my biggest reservation about Sony products. They treat software and computers like consumer electronics that are expected to function with a fixed feature set from the day they're born to the day they die.
I can see the merits in this for the less tech savy and that might have made sense in the 90s but not today.
- danso 8y agoThat's ironic to me. I swore off Sony products in the early 2000s after being burned on their early digital cameras and voice recorders, which were decent hardware but ran only on proprietary software and storage formats (e.g. the inferior and overpriced Memory Stick [0]). But the great quality of their mirrorless cameras converted me into a fan. The PS4 is also pretty solid. That said, I don't think I trust Sony enough yet to buy anything of theirs that isn't a camera or game system. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Stick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Stick
- eropple 8y agoSony's Xperia line of phones are great. They feel amazing (though a little worse than they used to; the Z3/Z3 Compact are, to me, peak phones) and I've never had a problem with updates. I prefer Panasonic cameras to Sony, but I do live and the consumer/prosumer Sony cameras are too expensive for the feature set compared to Panasonic. If I shot photos primarily I would probably own a Sony.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoThe main problem I had with the Z3C was that it had an ideal frictionless plane of a back and kept sliding off of everything.
- eropple 8y agoA lot of people had that problem, but it never really bothered me. My other favorite phone was the iPhone 4, though, so at least I'm consistent. ;)
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