Sony's missteps through the years

[Grimes]

pezus said:

Grimes said:

I'd say their biggest blunder was squandering the Walkman name. Walkman was one of the biggest brands in consumer electronics, bigger than Playstation. But through arrogance and incompetence, they let Apple get into the game and dominate the industry.

What did they do? (just curious)

Instead of supporting MP3, they decided that their devices would only support their own proprietary ATRAC format. Instead of using a hard disc, they decided to use their own proprietary Mini-disc format. Therefore the only way to get music on their devices was on formats nobody wanted at expensive prices.