Problem with large manufacturers is that they like fighting consumers, a war they always lose. They are so keen on protecting lucrative markets that they lose out on the future. If consumers have flash disks, and want to watch  the last episode, they get fought. Somehow, they end up discovering torrents and carry the PC home to watch their episodes - they they stop relying on that DVD player that Sony was so keen on protecting .<br>
<br>Camera manufacturers - no incentive to put WiFi or use standard cables to read images from the camera. The phone camera is nit high quality, but works when I want and how I want - i now buy a phone and no longer interested in cameras ...<br>
<br>Cycle repeats itself elsewhere <br><br>(And BTW, Sony has been in financial difficulties for a while, I am sure they are still looking for the problem) <br>