I follow Sony. What their new products look like, what their strategies are, etc. You have to if you’re into business and technology. They are too important of a brand not to (as is Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, etc.). However, I don’t like Sony. Did I mention that I don’t like Sony. In fact, I really, really go out of my way to _not_ ever purchase a Sony product. The reason? Standards.

Sony tries to _force_ standards on the market. Take “MemoryStick”:http://www.memorystick.com/en/, Sony’s flash memory product. I’ll never buy _any_ “product”:http://www.us.playstation.com/psp.aspx that uses it. I am friggin’ sick and tired of having to purchase first, Compact Flash, then SD and now with my Audiovox Smartphone, miniSD. Pretty soon it will be nanominihypersmallSD. Make it stop!

One way to make this stop is to never buy anything from Sony.