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Not really off topic @Bronsky - no Walkman, no iPod. No iPod, no modern Apple universe...

 

In the day, Sony had a lot of leading-edge products. I remember that they were among the first audio companies to offer active crossovers and amplifiers for multi-amped stereo systems (i.e., no crossover in the speakers). Their Clié PDAs were also interesting...

 

The mini disc was freaking awesome.

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http://www.urban75.org/tech/sonyTH55.html

I used to have the Clie TH-55 (still have it somewhere actually). Loved it! and now I have a Galaxy Note 10+... so to me it is just the natural evolution of the same companion device.

 

I'm kind of delighted, and secretly proud, that you got my references. Most people draw a blank at the mention of those names. Good start in 2020. Olympics and all.

 

Always have been a Sony fan and had their TVs and audio equipment most of my adult life.

The original Walkman was one of the very first devices I purchased with my own money which if memory serves was $200 in 1979 dollars. I'd argue that it was at least as influential as the iPhone in the realm of consumer electronics.

I think that one of the lessons that Jobs got from Sony's Walkman was that it was the total user experience that mattered most. The walkman's individual technologies already had been around in various forms for awhile e.g. you had portable cassette players, you had small lightweight headphones etc.

And simplicity was a focus as well, I can remember several of the adults I showed it to at the time remarking on the far that it could only playback, no recording option which actually was fairly radical for the time.

The positive experience of the Walkman made me a Sony fan generally, For instance as a newly on my own working person I held off on buying a TV until I could afford a Sony TV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman

PS: One of my favorite features of the original walkman was that it had two headphone jacks so you could share. I bought a second pair with a fairly short cable so my girlfriend at the time could listen as well

 

"Fairly short" - less than a foot I'd wager...lucky for you they hadn't invented wireless earbuds yet...

 

That's it! I knew I was missing one essential tool in stepping up my game. All those missed chances

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to me, sony is the picture of a failure and doomed company now.
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in the 80's and 90's, they were unstoppable with the audio and video products.

in fact, almost everything we bought came from sony:
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walkmen
boomboxes
stereos
amplifiers
tape decks
tv sets
[never owned a vcr]

but slowly, their dominance faded in everything:
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got a nakimichi tape deck
got a technics turntable
got panasonic boombox

ok, then a slight return
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27 inch TV (more than one)
sony minidisc player (portable and home deck)
i inherited a sony Vaio computer later on, to go aside other PC's.
got a sony playstation, and gave it away
got a sony PS2 much later, and still have it


then drifted away
In the last decade
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Samsung and LG tv's
Microsoft phone (LG)
Microsoft tablets (surface)
many other computers from dell, gateway, hp
Microsoft and Sega consoles (dreamcast, xbox, xbox 360, xbox one)
Samsung and LG dvd and bluray players


To this day, you could not pay me to use anything from SONY ever again
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no use for ps3/4/5
could care less about anything computer related from them
have moved on in TV technology, and have no interest in any technology they have
i would never touch a phone, or media player from them.


There is nothing they could ever make again, that would make me switch over
to anything NEW.

that said, i currently am using a sony portable minidisc player as backup
in my car for music, alongside an mp3 player, and phone. i think i have
a 9 inch portable studio monitor CRT used to hook up to retroconsoles also.
but thats about it.

Sony has lost their way, their relevance, and with the death of physical media
hopefully they will go under, and maybe become a videogame producer,
although they have rights to a lot of movies, and streaming.

their arrogant attitude towards technology, DRM, and propietary standards
won't be missed. good riddance.

later
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Wow! Vibe officially harshed...!