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Beautiful hardware let down by its software? Sounds like every Sony product I've ever bought.
by theodric 4y ago
Beautiful hardware let down by its software? Sounds like every Sony product I've ever bought.
- voxadam 4y agoIn defense of Sony's software/firmware team I'd argue that we've also been repeatedly burned by Sony's flawed hardware full of their endless NIH proprietary BS (e.g. Memory Stick, UMD, Minidisc, ATRAC, Betamax, to name just a few).
- layer8 4y agoMiniDisc wasn’t proprietary, it was available from many manufacturers: https://www.minidisc.org/equipment_browser.html https://www.minidisc.org/equipment_browser.html And the hardware itself was great, even when it was for a proprietary standard.
- NonNefarious 4y agoBut Sony is a champion of undermining industry standards. S/PDIF is a bastardization of AES/EBU. They created a bullshit version of Firewire with a rinky-dink non-standard connector that lacked power. They continued to cripple their products with Memory Stick for years after the rest of the planet settled on SD. Their first Thunderbolt support came crammed into a hacked USB port on one of their laptops. I'm sure I'm forgetting some other examples.
- trollied 4y agoSonicStage was a perfect example of this. Amazing (small!) MiniDisc hardware, let down by one of the worst pieces of software I've ever had the misfortune to use.
- laputan_machine 4y agoYeah this is exactly what I was thinking of, that software was truly awful. I owned 3 MiniDisc players. I thought they were so neat!