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Originally Posted by andygrif
I quite like Memory Sticks - I don't know if they're technically inferior to SD or not and I don't even know why I like them. The only thing that was annoying was that unless you shelled out for the expensive MagicGate ones you couldn't store music on them - which was the main reason I bought an iPod instead of one of their Memory Stick Network Walkman units.
I guess they make sense for me, I have a Sony digital camera and a Vaio laptop, so it works well. Completely baseless preference I know!
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I don't have any gripe with the format per se - it's all just flash memory after all (more or less) - I just don't understand why, with so many formats in the marketplace already, they thought there was room for another that adds absolutely nothing, while at the same time takes away a lot (namely portability, seeing as you can't use them anywhere else). It shows either endless confidence in your brand, or endless arrogance, to think that someone is going to buy a shed load of Sony products just so he can transfer his memory sticks between them.
For example, you can now buy a Sony widescreen telly that accepts a memory stick and allows you to play back photos stored on it. Great idea - what a pity that it only works if you have a Sony camera. Sorry guys, I'm just not buying it... (literally).