the walkman, retired

[waggy]

i had a few of them. i was kinda hard on them since i used them while rideing my bike all the time. they would fall and slide across the road or whatever.

i remember when i got a newer one that had "auto reverse" man that was great. no need to flip the tape!

 

[The Boston Dangler]

no matter what the bank account says, sony execs are colossal idiots. despite utter domination of a market, they had absolutely no clue what to do next, and someone else walked away with everything. it's another polaroid. the largest case of this might be ibm/microsoft.

 

[erikistired]

Um, I graduated high school in the mid 1980s.

then you should know better.

 

[dr150]

It's absolutely baffling how Sony lost the Walkman domination.

After all, they were at the top. they had the BEST technology of the time and then BOOM, they refuse to adapt to a competitor (Apple), whom the outsider would assume Sony would at least adapt, equal if not excel given the history of domination and technological ascension/improvement and prowess.

The Sony FAIL is simply baffling.....

 

[0roo0roo]

:thumbsdown: All this nostalgia over a technological dinosaur. I don't get it, give me an iPod any day!

pretty much. good riddance.
but it gets its kudos for coming into existence in a time when people had no good portable media options. i guess there was radio meh...

 

[geno]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Motorola-AM-FM-...r_Audio_In_Dash_Receivers&hash=item35ad467e55
So can your new car.

Dual shaft.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

It's absolutely baffling how Sony lost the Walkman domination.

After all, they were at the top. they had the BEST technology of the time and then BOOM, they refuse to adapt to a competitor (Apple), whom the outsider would assume Sony would at least adapt, equal if not excel given the history of domination and technological ascension/improvement and prowess.

The Sony FAIL is simply baffling.....

ROTFL what's baffling is the 25 year gap in your memory between walkmen and ipods.

 

[dainthomas]

Of course an iPod can't record cus it's a crappy MP3 player but any decent MP3 player has a mic on it to record.

But then you have to find a computer somewhere and plug it in and do a bunch of techno mumbo-jumbo to get the recording off. For a Walkman you just pull out the tape.

 

[acheron]

the history of domination and technological ascension/improvement and prowess.

Are we still talking about Sony? Minidisc & ATRAC, Betamax, MMCD, MemoryStick Sony?

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Are we still talking about Sony? Minidisc & ATRAC, Betamax, MMCD, MemoryStick Sony?

though they failed to gain market acceptance, aren't most of these technically superior to the competing technology?

betamax > VHS
atrac > MP3
memstick > SD