Sony Kills off Aibo, Qrio, Qualia

Tomo-chan writes "It seems Sony's cost-cutting has made it a more pragmatic company. The new boss has weilded his mighty chopper and put an end to both Aibo and Qrio, as well as some other marginal product lines. Aibo -- we'll miss you..."

I hope you're happy!

[Thud457]

Sony's got to cut back to the bone to survive because you piratical sons-of-bitches aren't buying enough Ricky Martin CDs!!

Quick, someone call PETER!

[digitaldc]

PETER, you know, People for the Ethical Treatment of Entertaining Robots?

Rumour has it that these Sony products have rootkits in them that can be remotely accessed to initiate a horrific self-destruct sequence.

Here's Hoping!

[drewzhrodague]

Gee, let's hope that this makes Sony produce more quality products, with more functionality. Why are they ignoring their customers?

Lethal injection or EMP?

[ClaudeVMS]

Give me the EMP it's quicker - Arf!

I misread it as "Sony Kills off Alito, Scalia".

[njchick]

Well, with Sony pushing DRM so hard, we'll soon see robotic judges, aka "digital rights managers" :-)

Sadly

[gowen]

... Sony have also announced they will be phasing out Kibo, an experimental artificial intelligence program that has been fooling the sophomoric inhabitants of alt.religion.kibology for over 20 years.

Summary

[Anonymous Coward]

Aibo -- we'll miss you...

No, we won't.

Where's Aibo, Uncle Howard?

[notNeilCasey]

Sweetie, the shareholders and I took that product line off to a beautiful farm where it will be happy forever running through fields of Newtons on the banks of Crystal Pepsi River. Aibo is in a better place now.

Let's go get some ice cream.

Adios, amigos..

[Ancil]

Sony Kills off Aibo, Qrio, Qualia.

I'm sorry, but who are these people, exactly? Bolivian immigrants working as janitors at Sony HQ?

Killing them seems awfully harsh -- I would think a wealthy company like Sony could just get them deported, or maybe beat up?

Vaya con dios, my Bolivian friends! There are no wastepaper baskets to empty in Heaven!! *sniff*

200? big spender..

[way2trivial]

are you aware of the price of aibo? and you'd shell out a whole 200 for qrio?

gads.

Re:Truly bad product timing or economic pressure?

[DulcetTone]

My Jack Russell Terrier never turned a profit, but we didn't kill him for lack of performance.

tone

Re:Put down the pipe...

[flyingsquid]

Mexican plants are perfictly able to produce high quality products

I dunno about that. Last time I had anything produced from a Mexican plant, it was a bottle of Señor Borracho's Old Style Blue Agave Tequila, and next thing you know, I wake up in a Tijuana jail wearing nothing but a Mexican stripper's panties on my head. I'm never touching that shit again, man.

Re:US biggest buyer?

[flyingsquid]

In Japan, if you want to display your financial superiority, you buy cool electronic toys - ultra-light laptops... In the US, you buy a big car

In short, in the U.S. if you have a small penis you buy big stuff. But in Japan, if you have a small penis you buy really small stuff. I guess it is a little less obvious that you're compensating when you do it that way.