Comments on: Sony to shut down Connect music store

A year after the stillborn iTunes competitor was launched, Sony to finally bury music service sometime after March 2008.

[DraconumPB]

Somehow I doubt...

...that Apple had to wait until now to breathe a sigh of relief.

While I'm no fan of Apple for the most part, I'm no Sony fan either, so I can't say I mind. Personally I wouldn't mind if Sony goes belly-up in the games arena, too. Sony is more arrogant than just about anybody else (Apple, Microsoft, etc. included, if you ask me) and they really deserve to have things suck for awhile (forever).

It's a far-fetched desire, but I hope someday to be reading this story about iTunes.... bah. (Kinda sucks to know that when I get around to releasing an album, the most prominent/lucrative digital outlet will probably have to be a DRM'd shop. Oh well.)

I'unno, I just don't think that iTunes is the ultimate evolution of the online music outlet, and if it is, I'm going to die a sad man.

[G|Net]

learn to spell

"Sony claims the reason it scraped Connect is...."

Hmmm... perhaps you meant to say 'scrapped'?

[romanom]

I'm an idiot, Sony is arrogant

It seems I now have a NW-S203F Sony player that is incapable of playing new music once the store closes.

Oh yeah, I forgot, I can still use DRM-free music...as soon as we get any.

Sony stinks and is, as said in another response, arrogant...I will never buy or recommend a Sony product again.

[dotmike]

What about Connect store for Sony Reader? (eBooks)

I assume this will live on?

[dotmike]

Sony has great engineering, atrocious marketing

I still love Sony products. They are generally the best of breed.

But the way they leave the lab and enter the market is a big
problem.