Many years ago, almost all my electronics were made by Sony.
Then two things happened. First, they started implementing DRM, I couldn’t copy a CD to a MiniDisc and getting my Sony Viao to play music was a nightmare.
Then Apple got into the music business.
A decade later, the only Sony object I use every day is a basic alarm radio.
I’m not the only one. Check out the Gizmodo article and the comments here…
Great hardware, shame about everything else. Guess who! – Boing Boing.
Publishing something in public that is this critical takes real guts…
“In the Supplier Responsibility Report they state, “when social responsibility performance consistently fails to meet Apple expectations, [they] terminate business.” In many of the cases of violations the wrongs have been righted, for instance underpaid workers have been paid for the discrepancies and the underage workers are all now at the legal working age.”
Apple Announces it’s Suppliers Violated Company’s Workers Rights Rules | Inhabitat.
Watching this makes me feel sorry for the policemen involved. Under-educated and under-trained they’ve become used to using intimidation; take that away with a camera and they’re lost.
The best quote in the show… “Hold on lets bring some logic into this”
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/06/howto-beat-the-londo.html
This is fantastic…
It works as well. I can see planes from my home office window and there is only a couple of minutes of delay.
It’s time for the best annual report of the year…
“Our gain in net worth during 2009 was $21.8 billion, which increased the per-share book value of both
our Class A and Class B stock by 19.8%. Over the last 45 years (that is, since present management took over)
book value has grown from $19 to $84,487, a rate of 20.3% compounded annually.”
If only the song was as good as the video.