Why Sony Connect failed

Software is hard, and Sony isn't a software company. You can't just drop one guy in there and expect anything to change within the culture of Sony's software development teams.

The quality of Sony's PC software in particular has always been mediocre to terrible, and there is absolutely no way they, or any other non-software companies, can compete with the likes of Apple and Microsoft.

Apple's dominance of the MP3 player market has everything to with their software design prowess, particularly when your primary competitors are total light-weights like Sony, Creative, and Samsung.

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Um, no, Prince (not artist formerly know as... he's out of his contract so the weirdness he used to get out of it is over) was signed to Warner brothers, not Sony, and Sony Got a small outside firm to develop Connect (for the first time ever sony outsourced development) it wasn't done internally. You should read the article, instead of racing to be first to post.

sony is losing it in almost every way

The Sony Connect story isn't finished... they'll be rolling out an updated version with books for that new eReader.

wow, what are the odds that sony couldn't pull of an itunes style endeavor with such a balkanized corporate infrastructure? it's obviously because the artist formerly known as prince told them to go to hell, after their other artist mr. michael (think bj's in the dark park in beverly hills) quit the label, and mariah carey broke up with that sony exec...their own artists pledge allegiance to actionable revenue (itunes, urge) and not the electronics firm behind the label...