Oh ho! Sony, who I had already pretty much counted out of the portable music game, has just stepped back up to the plate with the announcement (which makes for really boring baseball, really) that they will be supporting MP3 on their players, starting with flash players and going from there. That’s the good news. The bad news is that their plans aren’t official yet, so they could still drop the ball if they aren’t careful. Oh, and there’s nothing saying that the existing product line – on which millions of dollars worth of marketing and distribution have been slathered – will be able to be upgraded to support native MP3 playback.
Figure it out, Sony! And hurry!
Read – Sony to support MP3 [CNet]
Reader Usman Chaudhary is a better reader than I, because he noticed this excerpt from the article (I swear I read it! (It was on the internet, right?))
Sony not only plans to release new devices; it is working to make available software that will let owners of current models upgrade their devices to add native MP3 support, European sources said.
