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Good grief, Sony in conjunction with Phillips is responsible for the Compact Disk, Cassette tape, DVD I think etc. etc. They didn't get to be as big and successful by doing everything wrong. Anybody who knows anything about VCRs will tell you that Beta was far superior to VHS. Sony definitely screwed up where Beta was concerned but, they are still in the DVD/Blue Ray business. Sony also makes some of the best professional microphones money can buy. There contributions to the audio industry go without saying. There contributions to the video industry also go without saying. Now they want a piece of the professional still camera market. I wonder what percentage of all the digital cameras, from cell phones to large format, Sony is already making the sensors for? You folks who hate Sony so much probably have some of their electronics in your cameras right now.Sony is an absolutely horrible company. I would never purchase their products for any reason. I know they make a theoretically viable third choice in the dslr market, but their politics, their constant (usually failed) attempts at proprietary strangleholds on their customers, piss poor quality and ergonomics and make them a pariah in my eyes and the eyes of many.
That's a straw man argument if I ever heard one. So contributing some positives necessarily makes them not suck pond water? No, I really don't think so. There's a VERY handy example I could use, but it's kinda over-the-top, so I'll resist it... if you don't push it... but I bet if you think about it for a moment or two, you'll come on it yourself.
I was once a HUGE Sony fan... whenever I bought an electronic device, it would unquestionably be a Sony. Until I started to notice that everything I bought kinda sucked... or locked me into some STUPID proprietary piss-poor technology. (Can you say memory stick??? I knew you could.) Toss in 3 TVs, and not a single one had the same remote control or remote layout. Then they started suing 13 year old kids and grandmothers for stealing their music. Oh and then they started putting rootkits on their music CDs that would silently install on your system when you put the CD into your computer. Somewhere in there they also crushed the HD DVD movement by calling up the media houses and saying "Hey, um... yeah, you want to publish our movies? Bluray or nothing."
Yeah. Nice @#$@#$ company.
Simple fact is the CEO even came out in the past 5 years or so and said "Oh my god we suck." I'd find you the article, but ... meh.
And yes, Sony's stuff is everywhere... which is why I always eye my laptops with suspicion for fear that they will burst into flames on an airplane.
Go do a little research, man.