Why Sony is going to hell

[G.Irish]

But over time Sony has turned into a bastard company that I loathe and despise.
Basically, Sony cripples its electronic products because it doesn't want people to violate the copyright of any of the media they own. They've jealously created a bunch of closed, propietary standards so that they and they alone could control all of the content. And of course consumers have promptly ignored them.

but you still support Apple, who has always and will always create closed standards, force changes on its userbase, abandon legacy users, controll all content, how you interact with it, and on and on, all exponentially worse than Sony.
I guess bastard companies are relative to how trendy their products are?

Well the difference is that Apple has actually executed well on some of its products where Sony has not only been a bastard company, but executed poorly (PS2 being the notable exception) on the products being discussed here.

Still, the fact that they don't license the Fairplay DRM scheme leaves them vulnerable to someone coming along, executing better, and destroying their business. If someone with enough money and brains does that they could be in big trouble. The trick is that they'd have to have to one-two punch of content sales (music & video) and killer app hardware at the same time.

Honestly, I think Apple is almost as evil as Microsoft, its just that they aren't as strong as Microsoft so they can't do as much evil stuff. I think if Apple had some more rope they'd probably find a way to hang themselves with something stupid. They're already sending cease and desist letters to companies that use the word "Pod" in their product names. Then there's the whole 'suing the press because they leaked our product plans' thing.