alt Hacker NewsThis makes me realize I haven't had to mess with a Memory Stick in many years. Ye gods, I'm glad the younguns never had to deal with Sony's obsession with proprietary tech. They made the loveliest hardware, hamstrung with single-source accessories that cost many times more than the standard version but were only just a little better, if at all.
Today you can more or less buy an SD card and stick it in something and have it work. I am glad we eventually won this war.
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I think memory stick was fine for what it was. When they entered that market, there really was no true winner and sony doesn't like to gamble on things like that. It had wide support across sony and non sony things alike, so it wasn't like they were useless.
The real egregious one was the PS Vitas memory cards. Good god were those ever a scam
I remember having to deal with them when my parents first got a digital camera when I was a kid, and me being the kid who knew tech they left it to me to figure out how to get the photos off the camera and onto the printer. 128mb of storage, seemed so big at the time. And I remember seeing the price tag for a 1GB memory stick, was a whopping $500 lol