sony playing catch-up to apple? their MP3 players sound quality is the best, according to CNET, and the NWZ players are always editors' picks. Apple stuff is cool too, but as far as design they're OK if you're a teenage girl and you don't mind putting sanrio-looking crap in your front pocket. At least Sony stuff looks industrial-chic, not girl-chic. So what's with the Sony-bashing? They make good stuff--if you think Apple makes better MP3 players, are they so much better as to justify their market position? Be honest. It's all about marketing. Just like Microsoft dominates operating systems, even though Apple is probably better--Apple just didn't do what they needed to do, at the outset, to get market share, so now they're still a fraction of personal computers. But this doesn't mean that Apples suck. Likewise, just because Apple dominates the market in MP3's doesn't mean Sony and iRiver and Sansa suck.
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sony playing catch-up to apple? their MP3 players sound quality is the best, according to CNET, and the NWZ players are always editors' picks. Apple stuff is cool too, but as far as design they're OK if you're a teenage girl and you don't mind putting sanrio-looking crap in your front pocket. At least Sony stuff looks industrial-chic, not girl-chic. So what's with the Sony-bashing? They make good stuff--if you think Apple makes better MP3 players, are they so much better as to justify their market position? Be honest. It's all about marketing. Just like Microsoft dominates operating systems, even though Apple is probably better--Apple just didn't do what they needed to do, at the outset, to get market share, so now they're still a fraction of personal computers. But this doesn't mean that Apples suck. Likewise, just because Apple dominates the market in MP3's doesn't mean Sony and iRiver and Sansa suck.