mike wilson wrote:
From: Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2005/12/06 Tue PM 02:04:21 GMT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Sony's at it again.
William Robb wrote:
At least this time, they may have a point.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000&message=16139935
Their reasoning is a big pile of crap. If you want to stop people from
confusing two different kinds of battery, make them a different shape!
They admit what I suspect is the real reason though - locking their
competitors out of the spares market. Or possibly the existence of
spare batteries threatens the "planned obselescence" of their products...
They have been doing this for years. I don't think I have ever seen a pattern
Sony spare. I can't (easily....) buy genuine ones because I am not an
authorised repairer. My choice is to get all work done by authorised Sony
agents or not buy Sony products. Anyone care to guess my choice?
m
That's not a Sony thing. It's pretty standard for any electronics
company. Spares only to Authorized Service Centres. I certainly saw a
lot of that in my time as an Electronics Tech.
-Adam
