{"id":771,"date":"2009-07-01T00:50:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T00:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=771"},"modified":"2022-02-26T01:09:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T01:09:28","slug":"30-years-of-sony-walkman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/01\/30-years-of-sony-walkman\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of Sony Walkman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today marks the 30th birthday of the Sony Walkman – I can’t believe it was that long ago when my aunt unboxed her TPS-L2<\/a> and I got to listen in for all of 5 minutes. That was pure heaven for my ears at the time (the only thing I can compare that to would be the first time I held a Nintendo Game & Watch<\/a>, or the first time I played the ‘original’ Mario Bros<\/a> on my uncle’s Nintendo Famicon<\/a> against my brother…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward thirty years – my family somehow were always early adopters of ANYTHING-SONY. I still remember we had 2 Sony Betamax video players, and I remembered my first CD player in highschool was a used Sony Discman D-50<\/a>, and right after college I spent all my money on Sony’s Laserdisc<\/a> technology, and even had multuiple Minidisc<\/a> players…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I stopped buying Sony. Apple took over (today’s quote from ZDNet<\/a>),<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“During the Walkman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s 30-year lifespan, Sony has sold 385 million Walkman machines worldwide. Apple, on the other hand, has sold more than 210 million iPods worldwide in eight years.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow I miss the orange sticker they put onto all their devices – now THAT’S BRAND RECOGNITION (It’s a Sony!). Although I still would swear by Sony, these days it’s their headphone product that I keep buying more and more of (ask me about how a set of $35 earphones<\/a> replaced my $400<\/a> headset next time)…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I digress too much Sony announced the Walkman X<\/a> to be launched tomorrow… how would it fare against the iPod Touch<\/a> or the Zune HD<\/a>? Only time will tell – but even the new Sony Player lacks the orange sticker that I missed so much (think they dropped that design in the early 2000s). At least I can still print my own<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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