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I agree. It's hard for me to believe that certain directions that Sony took were engineer driven, as opposed to mandated by, say, the entertainment division. Early to mid 2000s was essentially one boneheaded move after another, from music players that didn't play mp3s, to cd rootkits, to UMD movies priced higher than DVDs. I wish I could say hindsight is 20/20 but you could literally see the train wreck happening in realtime, no hindsight needed.
Car manufacturers can certainly setup mall stores to advertise their cars, but the customer will still need to buy through a dealer.
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Paying more isn't going to do much. It looks like they're losing because of insane licensing costs. Paying more means more goes to the music companies.
Never. First, CD audio quality is good enough. Second, the market is in transition (already transitioned?) to a pure digital format, distributed either via flat files (e.g. mp3s), or via SaaS streaming services.
Similarly, Blu-ray is probably the last physical format for movies.
I'm so happy that between us and them, stands a low-wage retail Apple employee.
What's the security model?
So ... How many billions is it worth?