About tiredofsony.com
This website is the baby of my growing annoyance with Sony Corporation over the last few years.
Like any normal person, occasionally I don’t like what a particular person/business/entity does. It’s human nature. We’re all basically selfish. Thus on occasion we feel as if our individual moral perfection needs to be imposed upon random person/business/entity. Let’s face it, most of the time we just pinch our lip and walk along annoyed - knowing that we’d love to give someone a piece of our mind, yet understanding that the person/business/entity is ultimately our brother and that ya momma was right (for the greater part) that if you don’t have anything good/constructive to say, then shut yer yap.
In the past few years, Sony has caught the eye of several a person who has called their bluff, posted nasty things about their mothers, or simply have successfully refuted what they have claimed: all in the public forum that is the WWW. I have yet to find a proper compilation of these things, yet for some reason I have been taking screenshots and bookmarking for a while now of all the interesting things I have seen Sony do or say and I think the web needs a proper list. Thus, tiredofsony.com was born.
The site was started in March of 2007 seeing as though my bookmark folder labeled “Sony Idiocy” was growing QUITE large. At first it was just an amusing folder of links to show friends things that Sony had proudly claimed then recanted as if they never said it, or nasty things Sony said about other companies, or outright lies by top execs at Sony. But the folder got SO BIG that my amusement turned into confusion and disbelief, back into amusement, then into annoyance, and eventually to disgust. Though I began the site in March of 2007, I have ‘gone back’ to fill in the spaces (thus the ‘archive’) and tried my best to add commentary as if time hadn’t passed from each event. Occasionally you may find where I make a prediction in 2005/6 only to see it come true in 2007. I’m not just doing that to deify myself in the blog world, I did so because that was indeed what I said at the time. My future posts will reflect that as Sony isn’t too bright.
I find Sony to be extremely loose lipped, badly organized, excessively lacking in planning/foresight, and pathetically challenged in true innovation. Their business model seems to be “watch everyone else, and when they make something potentially profitable, reverse engineer it, change something minor, and call it something different, then put it to market.” If you’re familiar with BETAMAX, Memory Stick, ATRAC, MiniDisc, or UMD you know what I mean. All of these Sony branded products, ultimately, are other products which exist in forms that are MUCH more widely accepted because indeed, they were the originals and they are the universal standards. Betamax is VHS. Memory Stick is CompactFlash/SecureDigital flash memory. ATRAC is MP3, Minidisc is CD, and UMD is the MiniDisc version of DVD. Betamax was smaller than VHS and boasted supposedly better resolution, Memory Stick has a different form factor than CF/SD (the plastic is shaped differently, thus won’t fit your non-Sony device). ATRAC is programmed with Sony’s proprietary code that doesn’t let it be played with normal MP3 players. Minidisc is a small CD in a tray (gloriously 1990’s). UMD is a small DVD… in a tray. See where I’m going here? Sony lacks original thinking in most all of it’s divisions.
