Sometimes these things work out in a funny way.  Sony, at one point, was the king of portable media thanks to their famous Walkman line of products.  It all started with a portable cassette player, the first Sony Walkman, then continued through the CD-powered Discman.  Now, the consumer electronic product that started it all, the Sony Walkman, will end production on the 10th birthday of the iPod.

In 30 years, Sony sold over 200 million cassette-powered Walkmans around the world.  I still have one, in fact (I also still have a Discman).  Unfortunately, Sony bet on older, proven technology versus Apple’s willingness to gamble on something new and untested.  That’s why Sony is an afterthought and Apple is the new Sony when it comes to being the big fish in the music player world.  Sony still has Blu ray, but even that won’t last forever as we move beyond physical media and into the realm of all-electronic storage.

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