yushire said:
Whats the betamax complex? We sometimes plays the betamax till VHS hits mainstream and outphased betamax but what really happened? Betamax was fine to me. Only smaller than VHS :? |
Sony regularly comes up with new proprietary formats : Betamax, Minidisk, UMD, Blu-Ray...
They take huge risks everytime and have overall lost a lot of money because of it. Usually when launching a new format you try to play it safe, looking for partners (DVD was widely backed up before launch), answering needs to ease up switching costs (the simplicity of iPod), prolongating natural tendencies of the market instead (immaterial content for example), etc.
God i hate fanboys, almost as much as they hate facts
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” Antoine de St-Exupery
+2Q / -2N (to be read in french)
