Literally have had a 25 year sustained hate-boner for Sony.

@Moon It seems like the only things they will ever be known for are the Walkman and the PlayStation brand. Everything else is just useless junk that has better alternatives.

@xianc78 @Moon They're cameras are nice. I prefer them over Nikon. Also, I've owned an obscene number of their cellphones:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/every-cellphone-i-have-ever-owned/#sony-z3-compact
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@djsumdog @Moon I forgot about their digital cameras. I don't remember what brand my parents used. I always had a lot more nostalgia for disposable cameras because I would always get one on vacations as a kid.

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@xianc78 @djsumdog Their cameras were good but of course they used Memory Stick
@Moon @xianc78 oh yea, I hated those things. I left a bag with like 8 of them in a locker in a hostel in the middle of Australia 😡 .. I had already copied the photos off though. I only had them because my old Sony camcorder only used them, but my camera at the time took SD cards too. I've got a Sony 4k camcorder that only takes SDcards too.
@Moon @xianc78 @djsumdog I've always had a love-hate relationship with them. But few companies are better at making the goodwill they can get from a good product evaporate through some short-term, petty choice. Memory Stick is a good example. And even worse, once they lost that format war, they still had to make a dedicated format just for the Vita because god-forbid they be gracious losers and let everyone get cheaper storage, no they were going to milk the customers as much as they could.
@guizzy @xianc78 @Moon The Vita was the most insane thing. Why have a completely proprietary memory card?! And it didn't support multiple users, so if you people wanted to share a Vita with multiple account, you'd need multiple overpriced cards!
@guizzy @Moon @djsumdog @xianc78 The Vita memory card debacle was because Sony got hacked a year or 2 (hazy memory, sry) beforehand so they released with proprietary memory cards to minimize the risk to users having their info stolen. Anyway I run Enso on my Vita and I use a 256gb card with an adapter I got off of Amazon
@JungersGhost @xianc78 @guizzy @Moon oh yea, that hack. It took the PS network down for like a month. I didn't have a PS console back then, but I remember friends who couldn't do a lot with their devices. It's kinda amazing Sony recovered from that.

I sold my Vita years ago. I've thought about getting one off eBay just to hack and put custom firmware on.
@djsumdog @xianc78 @guizzy @Moon Millions of people had their credit card info stolen. Its a great device and it really is a shame that it didn't do as well as it could have. It was ahead of its time for sure.
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