Windows Phone Thoughts: Sony to Consumer: Thanks For Your Loyalty, Now Buy More Stuff

"Sony is close to unveiling a new, higher capacity version of its popular Memory Stick removable flash memory card. But sources say it won't be compatible with older devices. Expected to be announced at next month's Consumer Electronics Show, the new Memory Stick uses a different architecture to achieve higher capacities than the original card, sources said. Current Memory Stick cards top out at 128MB, but the new cards will come in 256MB, 512MB and 1GB capacities." :roll:

So those of you with memory stick devices, be it a Sony Clie, a Sony digital camera, Vaio with an MS slot, camcorder or Aibo are out in the cold. I have said it before. I despise proprietary solutions like the memory stick and about 95% of the other stuff Sony cranks out. Not because their products aren't good. They are good. In fact, they are great many times. But their proprietary nature means Sony can do what they want and as evidenced by this latest turn of events, will do what they want. Sony fans can only hope that new products that use the tentatively named Sony Memory Stick Pro products can use the older and now defunct Memory Stick and Memory Stick Duo products so there is some measure of interoperability between your Sony products.

Keep this in mind the next time you are at an electronics store and the product you are pondering has a Sony proprietary slot.