{"id":575489,"date":"2010-05-21T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T23:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100521\/0324139520.shtml"},"modified":"2010-05-21T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T23:54:07","slug":"has-sony-finally-realized-that-open-platforms-are-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575489","title":{"rendered":"Has Sony Finally Realized That Open Platforms Are Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony is pretty famous for creating closed platform after closed platform locked down with incredibly damaging DRM<\/a>. Back in 2005, there was a surprise statement from Sony’s Ken Kutaragi, where he admitted that the company made a mistake<\/a> in focusing on proprietary consumer electronics… but it seemed like no one was listening. The company kept on coming out with locked down, proprietary<\/a> offerings. So, we were a bit skeptical a year ago when Sony CEO Howard Stringer once again claimed that Sony should have been more open<\/a>. You can say it all you want, but if your solutions are still proprietary, it’s pretty meaningless.<\/p>\n

Could Sony finally be realizing that there really is a benefit to openness? Perhaps only after getting crushed in the market. But, people are noting that Sony’s agreement to use Google’s open GoogleTV platform is extremely un-Sony-like<\/a>. Of course, it might just be a desperation ploy — and too little, too late — for a company that hasn’t been considered a real leader in the space in many years.<\/p>\n

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Sony is pretty famous for creating closed platform after closed platform locked down with incredibly damaging DRM. Back in 2005, there was a surprise statement from Sony’s Ken Kutaragi, where he admitted that the company made a mistake in focusing on proprietary consumer electronics… but it seemed like no one was listening. The company kept […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}