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Sony Kills off Aibo, Qrio, Qualia
Tomo-chan writes "It seems Sony's cost-cutting has made it a more pragmatic company. The new boss has weilded his mighty chopper and put an end to both Aibo and Qrio, as well as some other marginal product lines. Aibo -- we'll miss you..."
Sony's got to cut back to the bone to survive because you piratical sons-of-bitches aren't buying enough Ricky Martin CDs!!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
PETER, you know, People for the Ethical Treatment of Entertaining Robots?
Rumour has it that these Sony products have rootkits in them that can be remotely accessed to initiate a horrific self-destruct sequence.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Gee, let's hope that this makes Sony produce more quality products, with more functionality. Why are they ignoring their customers?
Zhrodague.net - I do projects and stuff too.
Give me the EMP it's quicker - Arf!
Well, with Sony pushing DRM so hard, we'll soon see robotic judges, aka "digital rights managers" :-)
... Sony have also announced they will be phasing out Kibo, an experimental artificial intelligence program that has been fooling the sophomoric inhabitants of alt.religion.kibology for over 20 years.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Aibo -- we'll miss you...
No, we won't.
Sweetie, the shareholders and I took that product line off to a beautiful farm where it will be happy forever running through fields of Newtons on the banks of Crystal Pepsi River. Aibo is in a better place now.
Let's go get some ice cream.
Killing them seems awfully harsh -- I would think a wealthy company like Sony could just get them deported, or maybe beat up?
Vaya con dios, my Bolivian friends! There are no wastepaper baskets to empty in Heaven!! *sniff*
are you aware of the price of aibo? and you'd shell out a whole 200 for qrio?
gads.
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
My Jack Russell Terrier never turned a profit, but we didn't kill him for lack of performance.
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I dunno about that. Last time I had anything produced from a Mexican plant, it was a bottle of Señor Borracho's Old Style Blue Agave Tequila, and next thing you know, I wake up in a Tijuana jail wearing nothing but a Mexican stripper's panties on my head. I'm never touching that shit again, man.
In short, in the U.S. if you have a small penis you buy big stuff. But in Japan, if you have a small penis you buy really small stuff. I guess it is a little less obvious that you're compensating when you do it that way.