Sony disconnects Connect
Sony has just announced that they will be shutting down their Connect music store in 2008. Sony tried to compete with Apple's iTunes when they launched the Connect music store, but no one ever connected with Connect. The software was so buggy that Sony was telling customers to use the pre-Connect software, Sonic Stage while they tried to fix Connect. Sony's US operations wouldn't even release the Connect software in the US because of the bugs. Sony doesn't see the end of Connect as a failure though, it has "widened its digital music environment to support Windows Media". Kinda sounds like a failure to me.
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