| MrMafoo said: Sony invented: The Camcorder The CD The videocassette mobile music (the walkman was revolutionary for its day) And most people are not in business to just make money. They want to make money off a product. When a car manufacturer CEO gets excited about something, it probably is a car. What makes most driven men tick is a passion for there chosen field. Yes, they want to make money, but they want to do it while doing what they love. Making money is what Bill loves. The software they develop is just an avenue to make that happen. It's not a bad aspiration in life, it's only bad when people think Microsoft's motivations lie elsewhere. |
JVC pimpslaps you for mentioning the camcorder.
Phillips *****slaps you for mentioning the CD.
Ampex decks you for mentioning the video cassette.
The Walkman is fair game but only because I can't think of anything that came before it off-hand (and it was awesome).
For the most part Sony doesn't really innovate on its own. It makes things better, but innovation? Usually not.
I make fun of Sony in video games because Sony's greatest contribution to video games has been dual analog sticks on a controller. Microsoft had the power on button for the controller, a console hard drive, and the first great online system for a console. Nintendo has pretty much everything else under the sun.
Apple, by comparison, makes things look pretty. That's pretty much it.
