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Japanese camera companies are really bad at cloud software - Sony Playmemories probably the worst offender. Also the in-camera "mini-apps" tend to be terrible.

Japanese camera companies are really bad at cloud software - Sony Playmemories probably the worst offender. Also the in-camera "mini-apps" tend to be terrible. They make good hardware but horrible software. They should really buy a computational photography company that also knows how to make good web and native apps, like https://skylum.com/ https://skylum.com/

hughes 6y ago
I remember paying $10 to buy a mini-app that added what should have been native functionality to my Sony camera. Then a few months later a firmware update made it incompatible.
irrational 6y ago
We were actually on NTT (Nipon Telegraph and Telephone) cloud for many many years up until very recently. At the time we started using them AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc. did not exist. But over the past few years the quality of service has dropped considerably. My guess is that their best engineers were being poached by AWS, Azure, etc. and the leftovers couldn't keep it up.
robotmay 6y ago
I'd go further and say that a lot of software coming out of Japan is, if not of a poorer quality, then at least something to be assessed more carefully. This is particularly evident in videogames, where anything for PC is liable to be extremely weirdly built and feels like it was made for Windows XP. There's a strong tendency to use archaic cheat prevention tools like nProtect GameGuard, which is a rootkit, and a weird reluctance to run servers in sensible ways. Oddly this is all actually helpful when you want to run their games on Linux because even though they don't seem to know it exists, the games are so "old" that they're pretty easy to get running. Sony is actually probably one of the better companies for software. But they still do utterly weird nonsense that I'd never even think of. The PS4 throttles your download speed based on your ping to the download server. It's...totally wrong and confusing. But easily bypassed by running a proxy on your local network.

hughes 6y ago

I remember paying $10 to buy a mini-app that added what should have been native functionality to my Sony camera. Then a few months later a firmware update made it incompatible.

irrational 6y ago

We were actually on NTT (Nipon Telegraph and Telephone) cloud for many many years up until very recently. At the time we started using them AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc. did not exist. But over the past few years the quality of service has dropped considerably. My guess is that their best engineers were being poached by AWS, Azure, etc. and the leftovers couldn't keep it up.

robotmay 6y ago

I'd go further and say that a lot of software coming out of Japan is, if not of a poorer quality, then at least something to be assessed more carefully. This is particularly evident in videogames, where anything for PC is liable to be extremely weirdly built and feels like it was made for Windows XP. There's a strong tendency to use archaic cheat prevention tools like nProtect GameGuard, which is a rootkit, and a weird reluctance to run servers in sensible ways. Oddly this is all actually helpful when you want to run their games on Linux because even though they don't seem to know it exists, the games are so "old" that they're pretty easy to get running. Sony is actually probably one of the better companies for software. But they still do utterly weird nonsense that I'd never even think of. The PS4 throttles your download speed based on your ping to the download server. It's...totally wrong and confusing. But easily bypassed by running a proxy on your local network.