>And this goes beyond just the interface. Sony may have brilliant engineers, but you can tell it's a dictatorship - and The Man, while he may be a good general-

>And this goes beyond just the interface. Sony may have brilliant engineers, but you can tell it's a dictatorship - and The Man, while he may be a good general-purpose businessperson, is pretty dumb in other ways. After this and the entire GeoHotz fiasco, I actually have the opposite opinion. Sony has some pretty brilliant designers-the UI and device styling is quite nice. Their engineers, on the other hand, seem to keep on making pretty stupid decisions that make actually using the device difficult to use.