• SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    And it wasn’t a proprietary storage card? They didn’t invent their own headphone jack that only works with Sony headphones? Amazing. It’s like a whole new company!

    If you can’t tell, I’m still salty about aaaaaallllllllllllllllll the shit they pulled in the 90s/00s. Nothing like buying an mp3 player with money I should’ve been spending more responsibly and then learning I could only use Sony brand storage cards. Cards that cost twice as much for the same storage space. I bought my Xbox and dropped PlayStation solely because of those shenanigans.

    If, in twenty years, HP makes the only computer that doesn’t give you literal AIDS I still won’t buy one. And i feel the same about Sony today

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      6 months ago

      oh god remember MiniDisc? having to use Vegas Pro to burn the fuckers.

      member the rootkits? I member.

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        6 months ago

        member digital cameras being 4 megapixel and that was amazing?

        member Nokias being bullet proof?

        member Nextel push to talk?

        member downloading albums on limewire using the coffee shop’s Wi-Fi across the street, cobbling together a Can-tenna using a coke can cut up with a utility knife for a better signal?

        member waiting for Penny Arcade to load like one line at a time because everyone was using the free Wi-Fi from the coffee shop?

        member file sharing using mp3 discs with everyone on your floor?

        i member

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        6 months ago

        Dude I went straight back to J&R on Park Row and returned that thing. I had SD cards from my camera that I planned to use, and didn’t ask about storage at the store (mistakes of youth lol). I eventually got a Zen (30Gb!) a year or two later. What a tank!

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      6 months ago

      Sony is shifty with their PlayStation practices but their phones are genuinely good - seems like they are closer with the camera part of the business, which is pretty well liked from what I understand. The software support (or lack of) is the main issue but the hardware is clearly made by people that care (although apparently not enough about overheating on the IV series).

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        6 months ago

        My institutional memories prevent me from buying Sony

        When the PS4 came out and my old friends were clamoring over it i thought, “In 2003, we swore ‘never again’. In 2013, we broke that promise.”

        But i NEVER DID

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          6 months ago

          Yeah, I had that with Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung.

          A couple years ago, I decided not to cut my nose off to spite my face and evaluate the products and hope some shenanigans root kit doesn’t happen after i’ve purchased it

          I think im paraphrasing the author Iain Banks here, I feel like a piece of sweet corn in a turd, technically I’m intact but I’m still surrounded by shit.

          On the plus side it pushed me to Linux as my desktop OS.

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            6 months ago

            TBH I didn’t feel that strongly, but I could not resist channeling BLM

            That analogy works for many things these days