Proprietary Plugs and Formats Nobody Wanted

Tech companies regularly wager that customers will accept locked-down formats and expensive proprietary ports just to access their hardware. This look at tech history covers the biggest format gambles that collapsed under their own corporate terms: Circuit City's phone-home DIVX discs, Apple's power-squatting Display Connector, the one-dollar licensing fee that sank FireWire against USB 2.0, and Sony's decades of proprietary walled gardens spanning Memory Stick, ATRAC audio, and the PSP's solitary Universal Media Disc. Episode 6482 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6482 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/474887) Listen on Android: MWP FM Player — myweirdprompts.com/apk