Nothing against Sony, they manufacture product of amazing quality, but there are certain things that don't go down too well with the sony consumers. One being arrogance with which the company operates. Take this, a company recalling its laptops and says the the reason is a minor glitch, well as we came to know much later the minor glitch was related to batteries exploding.
There is always someone from Sony, who will always be ready to create more dilemma when you are looking for assurances. The rootkit episode where they secretly installed scripts to monitor consumers, the spokesperson from SONY justifies it by saying "most consumers don't know what a rootkit is, why care for it". Imagine a company suing other, you would believe there must have been grave infraction committed by the company being sued. Now take this, SONY sues Lik Sang ( heaven for Gamers all over the world ) for selling PSP's in Europe. Sony sues people for selling its products, yes that seems to be the case.

Question for SONY lovers, Why would any company relying on customer satisfaction and brand recognition do something like that. Making a portable device sounds good, loading it with your proprietary hardware devices no that good. Who would waste 1500 bucks for a SONY movie disk for his PSP, when he can buy the same DVD for half the money. Thanks for APPLE we dont have a proprietory music format for SONY music players.
Its like rolling out a car that runs on SONY fuel, a Operating System that runs on SONY machines, the days are long over, and people have started embracing Open Source. Probably SONY should take a leaf out of MS, long gone are the days when you can force issues on consumers, they want there freedom and if you are good they we will keep coming back to you.