Sony and Apple go way back: Sony made the floppy drives for the Mac, and the floptical for the NeXT. Apple's core pro audience has been historically video people, and Sony was (and remains) dominant in that business. For a long time Firewire was the only reasonable way to get your video from the camera to the Mac. However, as pointed out somewhere above, with the iPod Apple very much encroached on Sony's territory, and that was kind of the end of the beautiful friendship.
I believe Sony make the camera sensors for the iPhone (possibly the iPad too). Maybe not as friendly as in the past, but they certainly have a relationship.
Sony and Apple go way back: Sony made the floppy drives for the Mac, and the floptical for the NeXT. Apple's core pro audience has been historically video people, and Sony was (and remains) dominant in that business. For a long time Firewire was the only reasonable way to get your video from the camera to the Mac. However, as pointed out somewhere above, with the iPod Apple very much encroached on Sony's territory, and that was kind of the end of the beautiful friendship.
That's all so true. The Walkman days seem so long ago. I even had a Sony Discman ... and yes that is the spelling!
This is very likely. We know OS X ran on Intel years before it was released. We know Jobs ran NEXT OS on a Thinkpad. We know he liked Sony. We know he opposed the clones for business not ideological reasons. A limited licence of OS X made sense.
He's referring to a deleted post. The drive by poster was calling me racist (apparently saying "Korean brand" makes one racist now), accused the moderators of condoning it, then linked to a troll meme video that's an anti-Apple polemic. I've never heard of the account before, so it was either a new account, or one that is mostly inactive. Either way, I agree that it 100% qualified as a classic troll post.
Sony and Apple go way back: Sony made the floppy drives for the Mac, and the floptical for the NeXT. Apple's core pro audience has been historically video people, and Sony was (and remains) dominant in that business. For a long time Firewire was the only reasonable way to get your video from the camera to the Mac. However, as pointed out somewhere above, with the iPod Apple very much encroached on Sony's territory, and that was kind of the end of the beautiful friendship.
And, as pointed out above, they made the PowerBook 100 for Apple, back in 1991.
Should it be true, people should stop saying "S. Jobs would have never done such thing"...
The downfalls of idolization and hero worship. What happens when people spend their life worshipping someone only to find out something about their favorite hero that contradicts all their previous beliefs?
Ah, the downfalls of idolization and hero worship. What happens when people find out something about their favorite hero that contradicts all their previous beliefs?
Sony is about the only outsider I could see gaining approval. They have some very forward looking products, and they get the idea of an ecosystem with products suggesting something like a family of objects that complement each other. Toshiba would be close. I still have a Portege 2000 ultra slim laptop banging around somewhere that still runs a robotics setup and it's the closest thing to a MBA and it's from 2001?
The downfalls of idolization and hero worship. What happens when people spend their life worshipping someone only to find out something about their favorite hero that contradicts all their previous beliefs?
You are so desperate to find these gotcha moments that you repeatedly concoct these make believe scenarios you yearn to apply to the masses when they have only, and will only, ever apply to the fringe that you're ironically very much a part of.
The downfalls of idolization and hero worship. What happens when people spend their life worshipping someone only to find out something about their favorite hero that contradicts all their previous beliefs?
Steve supported the clones in the ‘90s and your statements have nothing to do with anything.
If I'm not mistaken, Sony also made the Apple monitors in the 90's. In those days, you always went with Trinitron CRTs for color work, and if you didn't see a faint horizontal line about a third of the way down the screen, you were paying too much for a wanna-be. Not sure, but weren't Trinitron CRT screens also in the first iMacs?
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Sony and Apple go way back: Sony made the floppy drives for the Mac, and the floptical for the NeXT. Apple's core pro audience has been historically video people, and Sony was (and remains) dominant in that business. For a long time Firewire was the only reasonable way to get your video from the camera to the Mac. However, as pointed out somewhere above, with the iPod Apple very much encroached on Sony's territory, and that was kind of the end of the beautiful friendship.
I believe Sony make the camera sensors for the iPhone (possibly the iPad too). Maybe not as friendly as in the past, but they certainly have a relationship.
That's all so true. The Walkman days seem so long ago. I even had a Sony Discman ... and yes that is the spelling!
I just don't buy this.
Thanks for sharing.
Perfectly reasonable thread. I see no trolls.
LOL. Undiagnosed psychological issues? I mean seriously, that has to be the reason.
I dont see any. Psychological issues might be the reason some see trolls under the bed.
He's referring to a deleted post. The drive by poster was calling me racist (apparently saying "Korean brand" makes one racist now), accused the moderators of condoning it, then linked to a troll meme video that's an anti-Apple polemic. I've never heard of the account before, so it was either a new account, or one that is mostly inactive. Either way, I agree that it 100% qualified as a classic troll post.
LOL. Undiagnosed psychological issues? I mean seriously, that has to be the reason.
Undiagnosed?
Sony and Apple go way back: Sony made the floppy drives for the Mac, and the floptical for the NeXT. Apple's core pro audience has been historically video people, and Sony was (and remains) dominant in that business. For a long time Firewire was the only reasonable way to get your video from the camera to the Mac. However, as pointed out somewhere above, with the iPod Apple very much encroached on Sony's territory, and that was kind of the end of the beautiful friendship.
And, as pointed out above, they made the PowerBook 100 for Apple, back in 1991.
And, as pointed out above, they made the PowerBook 100 for Apple, back in 1991.
I did NOT know that (and I had one of those
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Should it be true, people should stop saying "S. Jobs would have never done such thing"...
The downfalls of idolization and hero worship. What happens when people spend their life worshipping someone only to find out something about their favorite hero that contradicts all their previous beliefs?
Not a real issue for real people.
You are so desperate to find these gotcha moments that you repeatedly concoct these make believe scenarios you yearn to apply to the masses when they have only, and will only, ever apply to the fringe that you're ironically very much a part of.
The downfalls of idolization and hero worship. What happens when people spend their life worshipping someone only to find out something about their favorite hero that contradicts all their previous beliefs?
Steve supported the clones in the ‘90s and your statements have nothing to do with anything.