Sony is begging you: please forget about concord

  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Sony has been shit for much longer than 20 years, kiddo.

    It’s interesting. I did a quick search, and couldn’t quickly find many complaints about them before 2000, but technical people complained a lot about Sony products back then. The biggest complaint was that Sony did everything themselves. So, every component inside a piece of electronic equipment was made by Sony, and every time they could get away with it, it would have a custom footprint or custom specs, so that it was impossible to find replacement parts without getting them directly from Sony at huge markups.

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      6 hours ago

      I remember owning a Sony Powershot digital camera around the time when that tech first become consumer priced (around 2000 or so) and they had proprietary memory cards. I think it even had a custom USB cable with one end that wasn’t like anything else and one end regular USB

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      12 hours ago

      I said always, I just used an example from this century. Your comment does remind me of the UMD disks and their propriety sd cards