The Joy Of Electric Shocks

       ”Walkman is a Sony brand originally used for portable audio cassette, and now used to market Sony’s portable audio and video players as well as a line of its mobile phones. The original Walkman introduced a change in music listening habits by allowing people to carry music with them.

The device was built in 1978 by audio-division engineer Nobutoshi Kihara for Sony co-chairman Akio Morita, who wanted to be able to listen to operas during his frequent trans-Pacific plane trips. The original Walkman was marketed in 1979 as the Walkman in Japan, the Soundabout in many other countries including the US, Freestyle in Sweden and the Stowaway in the UK. Morita hated the name “Walkman” and asked that it be changed, but relented after being told by junior executives that a promotion campaign had already begun using the brand name and that it would be too expensive to change.” (Wikipedia, accessed 03/’10)

Now this is nothing with the tv documentary that I’ve watched on NHK in ’09. It was an interview with the designer on how and why the first two designs of Sony walkman were created. Sony = Legacy and whatever I’ve seen/watched/read/heard about it  really showed me why Sony Walkman was copied by the fruit co.!  I’m not defending Sony ‘cos it’s Japanese, again, I’m not Japanese, but the quality, the features, colors, materials..etc. of the Japanese products are always unbeatable, just see how cool the 80s’ WM-2 walkman is!

I don’t wanna discuss the lack of MDs and LDs in our market here, that most probably will need an entire post to be expressed well…