Comments on: Apple and SONY partnership?

By: dech ngor

dech ngor — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:16:35 +0000

could you tell me which sofwar I us to make my vidio camara work togather with my apple computer?

By: dech ngor

dech ngor — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:13:47 +0000

please i have sony Vidio camara is not play on my mac. what should i do?

By: linathael

linathael — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:48:06 +0000

-> Peter:
you actually demonstrate perfectly that SONY will make money from PS3 games, and not from the hardware part, and I agree, that’s why increasing customers by “helping” Mac users to gain access to PS3 games will profit to SONY.

-> Robert: I am aware that the Xbox2 SDK is based on PMG5…but it runs an OS similar to NT. In addition, I am sure that making Xbox2 easily adapted to Mac platform is the last wish of Microsoft. but I might be wrong

-> Jonathan and mcloki: thanks for you comments, indeed implmenting itunes and iPhoto into the PS3 might be a real interest for both company! adding features to PS3 and allowing PS3 users to know mroe about apple’s softwares and hardware

obvious partnerships are for audio and video and I agree on that; but the Cell processor making SONY and Apple getting closer around IBM’s baby then one can try to look further…

By: mcloki

mcloki — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 03:21:18 +0000

A PS3 inside of a media Mac would be just a killer idea. It would mean itunes playable on PSP and your home entertainment center. Don’t forget Sony Ericsson Cell phones and the very lucrative cell phone ringer market. This partnership also helps Sony promote their Blu-ray technology. Also Apple will be at E3. Who knows a surprise visit by Steve Jobs with one more thing being either itunes on PS3 or PS3 in a PLAYMAC mini. Throw in a dock to connect my PSP or ipod and Sony digital camera. Blammo. Maybe Apple could port iPhoto to be Sony corps camera software. Just dreaming I guess. But it is a nice dream. Apple branded Qualia TV’s. Uh oh It could be a wet dream.
mcloki

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:37:45 +0000

Regarding the comment above about games: If Sony makes money when each game is sold, but loses money on selling PS3 hardware, why is it bad if the same exact games will also run on Mac? Sony wouldn’t have to take a loss on Mac customers. Mac owners would simply be buying/renting PS3 games, thereby increasing game sales, of which Sony would get a cut.

How about a FireWire/USB2 port on PS3 allowing game saves to iPod? Just as long as it wasn’t possible to “rip” entire actual games this way, but merely use the iPod as a gigantic memory card, I think Sony would go for it (assuming they really are going to work more with Apple.)

(FWIW, I suspect that anything involving Sony & Apple working together would have more to do with video and music than it would with gaming, but I could see a gaming collaboration. I’d love to see certain iApps on PS3. Maybe an iPhoto Viewer, iTunes Player and iMovie Player?)

By: Robert Boylin

Robert Boylin — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:41:00 +0000

I enoyed your “take” on the potential Apple-Sony activities. It is interesting in your last speculation on gaming on the Mac. What was brought to my mind is that Microsoft’s new X-Box will also be run on a PowerPC chip version. Microsoft shipped G5 PowerMacs to their developers with a port of NT for the purpose on Apple’s boxes. It might be a lot easier to port such X-Box games to Apple’s computers as well. Thus, Apple’s hardware becomes an easy market expansion for the game developers. Graphic cards are the primary roadblock to these ports of course.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:31:36 +0000

HD: I agree. After all, what good is having HD video if you can’t edit it?

Music: I think it’d be more likely that Apple will allow Sony to build iTMS-compatible music players and getting out of the music store business.

Playstation: I’m not convinced that Sony will be interested in helping developers port games to the Macintosh. Remember that Sony makes money off of games–you sell the hardware for as close to cost as possible. Games developers then give Sony a piece of every unit they sell. That’s how Sony makes money off of Playstation.

Remember that this is the same Sony that bought out “Virtual Game Station” for Mac OS 9 after losing a lawsuit with Connectix.