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More Journalists Doing Their Job

Speaking of how to write stories about Sony that aren’t shit, here’s Tim Kelly and Reiji Murai for Reuters also showing BusinessWeek how it’s done.

A Better Sony Story

Remember the piece of shit story about Sony a few months back from BusinessWeek? The New York Times’ Hiroko Tabuchi actually interviewed people (OMG!) and wrote it up like a real reporter.

Ten is Less than Five

Almost exactly one year ago, John Gruber criticised the tendency of reviewers to grade to a curve in the context of tablets. Unfortunately, it’s been a year and things haven’t changed much. Consider Vlad Savov’s recent review of the Sony Xperia S for The Verge.1 Savov gives the device a 7.1 making you think this [...]

Now Sony is What?

Businessweek has a story in its latest issue about Sony. It was on the front page of Daring Fireball and linked to a couple of times in my Twitterstream. As a long time Sony fan, I was interested to see what it said. The article is terrible and I have no idea why anyone has [...]

Sony’s Design Problem

I’m one of those people that think Sony’s problems lie in its almost complete inability to write software that human beings are supposed to use. That said, Rob Beschizza makes a pretty persuasive case that, at least when it comes to the PC, Sony’s problem is as much it’s inability to actually sit still (as [...]

Wither Nintendo?

My friend CC and I have an ongoing back and forth as to whether Nintendo (and, to a lesser extent, Sony) is going to survive the rise of smartphones. I confess most of the heavy lifting is being done by Horace Dedieu and Dick Schmidt at Asymco. This post sets out the pickle Nintendo finds [...]

Sony, You Used to Be Cool

Dan Frommer with another cracker jack post on his site SplatF: Growing up as a gadget nerd in the 1990s, there was no brand as exciting as Sony. Yes, Apple made great computers, and that’s what we used. But almost everything else, I wanted from Sony. I wasn’t even an Apple nerd in the 90s, [...]

Lukas Mathis on Windows Phone

I bought a Samsung Omnia 7. I generally like Samsung. To me, Samsung feels like Sony felt in the 80s: they make solid, generally well-designed products at acceptable prices. The Omnia 7 is probably not one of these. This quote really isn’t representative of Lukas Mathis’ excellent review of Windows Phone 7. I have truly [...]