Sony buy Apple? Oh no!
August 14th, 2003
Just what we need, eighties and nineties dinosaur Sony buying still innovative Apple. Sony is the company that managed to lose the portable market that they controlled just a bit ago with the walkman and the discman because of copyright concerns about MP3s.
If Apple must be purchased they can do a lot better.
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Apple…the Betamax of computers.
Don’t start that kind of stuff Owen – before you know someone is going to mention the Amiga, and things just go down hill from there.
Yup, Garth is right. You know you hit rock bottom when someone brings up their trash-80. If every geek that said they owned a TRS actually did that computer would have been, er, very popular.
I think Betamax was Sony’s format, wasn’t it?
Yep, it was Sony’s. Acknowledged to be better quality than VHS, loved by its buyers, but killed by its owner’s refusal to license the technology to other manufacturers.
Sounds maybe like a certain computer firm?
Or possibly killed by the fact that it took two tapes for a movie of any length?
Face it, the best technology wins in the open market, just not always for the reasons we like.
And Apple is not Beta, they have a niche. That niche being people that want style and usability at a great price.
Apples suck that is all….
I wouldn’t call Apple an innovative company, as much as I’d call them a company that’s good with interfaces and aesthetics. The iPod is their only *real* mainstream (ie: not being purchased only by hardcore Apple-o-philes) success over the last 5 years or so (we’ll see if iTunes has any staying power), and that is primarily taking the mp3 player (already relatively well established), giving it a great interface and a hard drive. Creative and Diamond (among others) already had mp3 players with hard drives, so Apple pretty much just came up with the interface. Kudos to them for being good at it, but I wouldn’t call it that much of an innovation. If they would only start focusing on their ability to build a kickass interface, instead of forcing their crappy, hard-to-upgrade hardware on us.