Sony timer
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The Sony timer or Sony kill switch is a Japanese urban legend. The legend suggests that the Sony Corporation installs a device in its electronics products which causes them to fail soon after their warranty expires, an (illegal) form of planned obsolescence.
While it is unlikely that Sony is explicitly adding expiration devices to their hardware, the "Sony Timer" has also been taken to mean that Sony manufactures devices to withstand just enough use for Sony to produce a new line of the device. Although uncanny, no proof has ever been found supporting these claims.
At the annual shareholders meeting held on June 21, 2007 in Japan, the president Ryoji Chubachi said that he knew the word "Sony Timer"[1].
[edit] External links
- The myth of the Sony 'kill switch'
- Sony timer
- What's "Sony Timer"? That Appears on Internet so Frequently Nowadays
[edit] References
- ^ ソニー、定時株主総会を開催。「利益を伴う成長へ」 「ソニータイマーという言葉は認識している」中鉢社長 (in Japanese), 2007-06-21, AV watch
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