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"The idea was ambitious, but the timing betrayed it. Sony no longer trusted tape to carry meaning on its own, yet it could not quite let it go. The cassette was being asked to behave like a file, and it resisted." ----- "At the moment people expected digital media to feel lighter, Sony made it procedural. This was when Sony lost the culture war, because it tried to manage the listener instead of serving them."

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