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Sony Takes Aim At Amazon's Kindle
MojoKid writes "Sony recently announced two new eBook readers and has set its sights on tapping into Amazon's Kindle market share. The Sony Reader Pocket Edition and the Reader Touch Edition will come out at the end of the month and will reportedly cost less or the
same as the older, more established Kindle. The Pocket Edition has a five-inch
display, comes in several colors ('including navy blue, rose and silver') and
fits, as one might expect, in a jacket pocket or a purse. It can store about 350
'standard eBooks' and can last about two weeks on a single charge, Sony claims.
The Touch Edition is a bit larger, with a six-inch display that, as you'd
expect, can be controlled via a touch interface."
Why do people call XCP "DRM"? It's a god damned rootkit. I can't understand why anybody would buy any sort of computing device from a company with a history of installing rootkits on their paying customers' computers.
If you have bought any kind of Sony computing device since the XCP fiasco, I really would like to know how you can trust it.
Free Martian Whores!
I wouldn't be surprised to find that Sony intentionally screwed it up, or maybe just didn't devote any time to fixing the issue when it was found because they only care about MemoryStick.
As for everyone else, Sony has a long history of making poor-quality products with giant price tags, and screwing over their customers with things like the rootkitted CDs. Why would I want to support a company that has done those things in the recent past?