Why Sony is going to hell

[Evan]

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.

so you're repeating what I said. A company can be bastard, fuck people over, force standards, create monopolies, sue its end users, etc all if you like their products. Then its a-ok, otherwise you loathe and despise them?
There are plenty of alternative MP3 players that are just as good or better than Ipods that you could support instead if you want to live your ideals.
Your arguments against sony dont really hold much water when you only apply them to sony.

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.

its funny how when MS creates a closed standard, its monopolistic and they are evil. when apple does it they are really just leaving themselves vulnerable. Which is bs btw, Apple has a stranglehold on the market and more monopolistic than MS ever was. They arent leaving themselves vulnerable to anything. I think we are going to see more closed standards from them, because people are tied to their ipods and itunes and will not be willing to give up their investments.