The Sony Walkman Legend Comes To an End

The Walkman was launched in the year 1979 and now it's been almost 3 decades. This revolutionary device was one of its kind. Although it was not welcomed by everyone, but 80's and 90's saw the rising popularity mostly amongst the youngsters. After the invent of the Compact disc "CD" as we all know, Sony launched its first portable CD player. CDs were better than cassettes both in sound quality and quantity as it stored more songs than a music cassette. Then in the year 2001 Apple Inc. launched its first music player under the brand name "iPod" though it was not the first mp3 player in the market but surely was the trendsetter ultimately hampering popularity of our good ol' Walkman.

The reason Walkman is a legend is that, although Sony has stopped the production of the portable cassette player, it still is world-famous, as Sony never stopped the production of music players, mobile phones etc under the same brand name. Its latest product is the video mp3 player with OLED screen. Sony kept exploiting the brand to the fullest. Sony launched NW-A800, NW-A810, NW-S710 , S610, NW-A820, A910 series Walkman etc. and there are many more. Along with music players, Sony launched mobile phones in collaboration with Ericsson having the feature of inbuilt Sony Walkman.

It was evident that technology keeps changing and improving with passing time, but a product running this long is simply worth the praise. Sony also hinted that there are more products whose days are numbered; and lined up on its 'hit list' including CD players, mini disk players and floppy disks and drives. So, more gadgets to be declared dead now...