january 6, 2007
When I first opened my SonyEricsson W810i box and was looking through the stuff, I noticed the above. Inside a SonyEricsson product is a SanDisk Memory Stick Pro Duo flash card instead of a genuine Sony flash card. Anyone else find this a bit odd? I mean, you are Sony. You should include your own media in the box, no? A quick check of prices on Amazon turns up what could be the reason for the inclusion of a SanDisk card instead of a Sony one...Price.
SanDisk's 512MB MSPD card is priced at $28.90. Sony's? It costs $44.99! That is 56% more than the SanDisk one! WTF? This brings up two things that are bothersome:
- Sony cannot even price their own proprietary stuff cheaper than SanDisk.
- Sony went and cut costs by putting their competitor's product in the box. Where's the backbone? Where's the promotion of your own product?
Sigh. Sony created a proprietary format that is so expensive that they themselves got outpriced. That is kind of sad.
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