http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/01/s...favor-of-micr/
Nice!
Sound like CEO Howard Stringer wasn't just mouthing off last month.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/s...-technology-f/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/01/s...favor-of-micr/
Nice!
Sound like CEO Howard Stringer wasn't just mouthing off last month.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/s...-technology-f/
Ah good news. I never understood why they wanted to push their own format in the first place.. the original memory sticks were pretty much limited to the Vaio laptops and a couple digital cameras - I thought Sony were trying to pull an Apple![]()
But it seems an odd move to me, with every card reader under the sun able to handle the 20-odd formats we have these days, to pull the plug now.
I'm assuming Sony are still looking at their first loss in 14 years and thinking - "maybe people will be happier to buy our cameras and phones if they can reuse their SD/flash cards from their other items".
I hate proprietry stuff, and this is coming from someone who has a DellI'm glad to see more open standards, especially since the SD/MiniSD/MicroSD format is cheap as chips to buy cards of.
Muppets, i wish they included microSD in to my W910 then i wouldnt had to spend a fortune in to paying for a 8gig M2, i mean K850 was exactly the same time phone and it had it![]()
I can't believe it's taken them this long to realise they were wrong. Don't they know you're not supposed to antagonise customers? Or make their life more difficult? It's such short-term thinking pinning people to your own format just so you can make a few extra quid. I'm glad it's finally biting them in the ass.
To defend Sony a little bit, I can understand why they created MemoryStick to start with: there was nothing else comparable on the market at the time.
You either had CompactFlash, which wasn't very compact, or SmartMedia, which wasn't smart at all (and limited to 128MB).
Hell, at least it's better than XD cards!
Very true. I only said a little bit![]()
Worse part was when they introduced the M2 cards for their phones... Nothing else uses them!
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