Sony has always treated its customers like absolute trash from the get go. As a kid, I had a stereo that ended up dying. They weaselled out of the warranty. Flash forward to my Sony headphones where one ear died and they did the same. Forward again to my Ericsson phone whose screen died due to “water damage” (the markers were triggered by a friend who worked in their repair department said all phones on high humidity zones were always triggered because back then phones weren’t even dust proof). They sent it back refusing to fix it.

Since then they have been on my embargo list. One of the worst companies for caring about their customers.

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[–] people@kbin.social 59 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I still remember the Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal.

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah another stellar case in point to show Sony would rather you eat glass than have to do anything for you.

Let’s not forget the ridiculous court case against Geohotz for jail breaking the PS3. They pulled out every dirty tactic they could in that suit. Really showed their colours and how they actually “fight” in the court of law.

Scum of the earth.

[–] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My last straw was when they killed OtherOS on the PS3, which was very much part of my purchasing decision. Sure, it was kneecapped from the start (Linux still ran under the hypervisor, could not use the GPU, and was only given 6 Cell cores), but it was there. At least I got a $60 check from the class action settlement!

Bunch of cocksuckers. I have not purchased a Sony product since.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You see, they wanted all the benefits of being able to use OtherOS in their marketing. But they didn’t want you to actually use it!

[–] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Basically. In Sony's case, they were clearly afraid of homebrew games, but I still can't imagine any other rationale than what you said for killing the feature, especially as neutered as it was. It definitely taught me a lesson about buying products that can't be kill switched after purchase. The US Air Force even built a cluster of 1700 PS3s that relied on this feature. I'm sure they weren't routable to the internet to get updates though.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago

Sony are one of the most anti consumer companies around, yet their diehard fans and the gaming media especially just give them a free pass. It’s disgusting.

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 7 points 11 months ago

We never got those things here, everything was already pirated 😂.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

The Sony minidisc players were decent hardware, but the app that loaded music onto the discs was completely garbage.

It would set the bit rate down to sub 40kbps(so it looked like you had mp3 Cd levels of storage, and would move the original music files it "loaded" deep into %appdata% to try and hide the originals from you.

[–] Docus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

That was what got me to look into piracy. Bought a CD and was unable to copy it to my iPod. Fuck that

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