Once a respected company – then later it became a large conglomate stretching its name across many different product arenas … and now: the laughing stock of the Universe.

Time after time these last couple of years they have just made ridiculous failure after ridiculous failure… Just to mention a few:

• The Connect Player was launched as an “ITunes killer app”, but they haven’t barely tested the crap before stuffing it down along with their new “IPod Killer” (The Walkman A3-1000/A3-3000)… and who got burned? Their customers! And in the usual Sony-We-Are-Flawless manner they refused every problem until too many customers were pissed off (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/01/30/sony_connect_player_problems/)
• Their Atrac/Copyright format, that was suppose to deal away with the MP3 – leaving Sony back in charge of the vessel again.. And wauv, what a succes! After soo many years of not listening to customers or watching how their sales failed they finally did like the rest and accepted that the customers have made a choice about MP3 (and to some degree WMV for reasons unknown to me ) (http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2004/09/22/14013.aspx)
• No one could ever forget their “small” laughing-stock matter of their copyright-protection scheme, that actually made music cd’s walking hackers into your or the military’s computers… And their standard way of handling the matter was of course: Denial, then denial, then let the customers suffer some more until the public procecutors started appearing, then a little admitting, then a little more, then a bit more, then acceptance of their failure… (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_CD_copy_protection_scandal)
• Apparently the great “quality” of Sony products doesn’t include their batteries, which have turned out to be a far greater threat to humanity then terrorists every will… (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/53324.html)

What happens when a company becomes that deaf to ones customers and just makes a living of ones brand? Well, things will quickly begin to look grim financially (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/22/ap/business/mainD8ID49VO0.shtml)
And now all their hopes for returning to a economical sane place in this world to avoid running down the drain their are currently circling they are betting everything on their lovechild, The PlayStation 3 … not only for the great game industry business, but also for winning the HD DVD vs. Blu Ray conflict (which certainly doesn’t make life easy for their customers either) … And everything on the PlayStation seems to go wrong as well! … Apparently it should have been named the PayStation as everything from the games to the bloody box itself costs a bit more than a soul on garage sales in Hell!

Sony is soon to be gone! Rest in peace! …