really?!?  MTV must be pissed.

Horrible idea...I won't go any further.

well if it is a minus for Microsoft then i like it

Yeah, right.  Like Sony has any trepidation about what Apple is doing compared to MS, who is feeling its OS market monopoly slip away. 

MS could buy Sony.  Nintendo is bigger than Sony.  Apple can't buy Nintendo and couldn't have before the Wii without really stretching it and making everyone scratch their heads.

Nintendo should make a theme park.

Why has no-one yet mentioned Sony-BMG, they are HUGE!
A hookup with PSN is surely around the corner once the legalities get sorted out.
as for iTunes on the PS3...well I'll hold my tongue.

I prefer PSP(Sony) + iPhone(Apple). THAT WOULD GIVE ME A COMATOSE.

I would more likely see iTunes on Wii. Nintendo and Apple don't (yet) compete each other. So a music channel or something similar on Wii with Apple, sounds more plausible, since Sony already has access to its internal music distributor, BMG.

Besides, Wii supports the AAC too.

I see that some people are saying it wont happen they hate each other lol there companies not people if apple saw that by doing it they would make money then they would do it. after all thats wat business is about making money. right?

You cant trust any1 in this World. Its a Pichu eat Pichu World :P

As to them working together, that already kinda happens given that you can get a ton of Sony content (music, video and the like) on itunes via apple TV or your computer.

They are more friends then enemies, its kind of rivalry like Apple and Google. Yes they compete, but they both like each other a lot more then they like Microsoft. Watch out for the Transformers references to come, its the only metaphor I could think of that works

There are basicly Autobots and Decepticons in electronics. They aren't the same and they don't even always work together, but the two sides remain allied in basic ways and prefer each other to the opposition.

On the Autobot side you have companies like Google, Apple, Sony, Yahoo, IBM (surprisingly, they had a huge change of heart in the 90s and are now the number 1 linux and open source supporter, who knew) and tons of other little guys. They are the ones who push things like open standards, UNIX based OSes and cutting edge technology.

They are often competitors, but they still would GREATLY prefer each other to the alternative. Look at the Yahoo deal, Google is by far Yahoo's biggest rival and yet when Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo they went RIGHT to Google to work out a way to keep Microsoft out of the club. I've seen Sony people several times at the macworld keynote introducting things like HD cameras which work hand in hand with Apples HD Final cut pro video offerings. Google is making a phone OS and yet Google was the first mail and search service integrated into the iphone from day one, except for stock searches which, not surprisingly, Apple gave to Yahoo.

I would kind of put Nintendo in this camp, though Nintendo isn't much of a fighter (they usually just go make 1st party money on their own) they DO use open standards. For example the Wii has the Opera browser (based on the open Mozilla platform) and like the PS3 uses Open GL and not any kind of proprietary Microsoft platform. The PS3 is open and you can put linux on it with no issues at all (the xbox needs to be hacked to put anything on it at all), OS X takes certain aspects of its UNIX based operating system and in exchange contributes a lot to the overall UNIX/LINUX community. Its kind of a family, they compete and don't always get along, but they're still on the same overall team, fighting for a primarily open community without Microsoft running the show.

On the other side there is the Decepticon empire headed by Microsoft and helped by cronies that microsoft buys or bullies. In this camp you have all manner of evil things done to protect that venerable Microsoft stranglehold. Its from this camp that you have direct X which doesn't work with anything but Windows and the Xbox as an effort to stifle the superior Open GL platform, you have windows media video as a method to push apples quick time out of the media player market, you have all kinds of .net related crap inserted into the internet to make sure a lot of the sites you like don't work with Firefox quite right.

Microsoft does have partners periodicly, but it has the unfortunate habbit of eating its friends and/or leaving them holding the bag. A great example is the play for sure MP3 type format. They got all the companies that weren't apple to adopt it more or less (Zen, Apheros or whatever those big hard drives were, San Disk ect) and then, when the Zune came out, they stopped supporting it and cut off support for all the companies they had talked into adopting it. They talk a good open game until they find a way to cut their "partners" out and close the system. They do everything they can to fight open standards since the only way they make money is by forcing people to pay obscene prices to use their proprietary systems they leveraged their monopoly to create.

As a quick example we can take .doc. They have worked for years to make it as difficult as possible to use anything related to word without buying word. They largely succeeded in making it the standard since they bought or shut down more or less all the competition (leveraging windows to do so). As a result the Office suite costs as much as a decent computer. To get the full version is around 500 dollars on top of the 300 dollars for a full featured version of Vista. Yes, that's right, to get into their walled proprietary garden Microsoft wants to charge more then a mid range PC costs.

For a quick Autobot comparison OSX costs 99 dollars with 149 dollars getting you 5 licenses, its also VERY lax and won't stop your computer from working or bug the hell out of you for months without special activation. I can't even remember entering a code in when installing OSX upgrades when I think about it much less having to call customer care in India multiple times ala Vista. iwork which does everything Office does (in many cases better, such as keynote being>powerpoint) is 49 dollars, or free with some macs. If you're even more brave you can use open office for free (which IBM, Apple and others support) and Linux also for free.

Of course some people here have this great loyalty to Microsoft which I don't understand. I guess some people like paying almost 1000 dollars to make their computer work and not having access to games (thanks to direct X) and office documents (thanks to closed office formats) if they don't. The good news is the autobots have been growing for years now as more and more dissatisfaction with Microsoft rises. With Apple, Google and Sony leading the charge hopefully the evil empire will be knocked off its throne within the next decade.


Again though Sony and Apple DO work together on a lot of things (apple was a big Blu Ray advocate and added it early to their Final Cut Pro suite for instance, they never supported HDDVD) especially in video and content. Its Microsoft who doesn't work well with...well just about anyone.