Sony will close its music store

Posted August 31st, 2007 by admin

Sony plans to close its music store, Connect, sometime after March 2008.

Apple's iTunes, was never actually threatened by Sony's misguided download service, of course. The company's attempt to compete in the digital music market was from the start marked by glitchy software and disinterested consumers.

Sony claims the reason it scrapped Connect is that the company has "widened its digital music environment" to support Windows Media. But the story of how Connect was doomed from the start is well chronicled.

The project was self-sabotaged by politicking and infighting on the Connect development team.

When Sony launched Connect, the software was so buggy that the company resorted to telling frustrated customers to go back to using pre-Connect software, SonicStage. Sony's U.S. operations went so far as to refuse releasing Connect.

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