I grew up Tokyo during the 60s and 70s when Sony was changing the world with cool new gadgets. My Dad told me the same story a zillion times about how Morita ( co-founder of Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo now SONY ) came by and borrowed a Webcor tape deck ( US made reel-to-reel ) from one of his colleagues, then a year later came out with their own model. aaah I've now told it again... These guys with their small store in a factory building somewhere in Gotanda where total hardware hackers. I still remember my Sony Walkman WM-D6C Professional I had in the 80s. Nobody else was making affordable tech like that back then.
And we all know that SONY totally missed the boat with the PSP. SOO much potential lost in the land of DRM. Talk about pissing off a legion of users.
I think the original founders of SONY would have been appalled by what's going on now. They would have understood that hacking is intrinsic to the process of any good piece of hardware. Because thats exactly how they got started.
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I grew up Tokyo during the 60s and 70s when Sony was changing the world with cool new gadgets. My Dad told me the same story a zillion times about how Morita ( co-founder of Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo now SONY ) came by and borrowed a Webcor tape deck ( US made reel-to-reel ) from one of his colleagues, then a year later came out with their own model. aaah I've now told it again... These guys with their small store in a factory building somewhere in Gotanda where total hardware hackers. I still remember my Sony Walkman WM-D6C Professional I had in the 80s. Nobody else was making affordable tech like that back then.
And we all know that SONY totally missed the boat with the PSP. SOO much potential lost in the land of DRM. Talk about pissing off a legion of users.
I think the original founders of SONY would have been appalled by what's going on now. They would have understood that hacking is intrinsic to the process of any good piece of hardware. Because thats exactly how they got started.