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Sony retires the cassette Walkman after 30 years
- petervandijck 16y agoTechnology really has a short shelf life these days.
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- ugh 16y agoSony hasn’t, however, retired the Walkman brand. They only retired the technology their first Walkman used. There is something similar happening at Apple, they will probably retire the technology their first iPod shipped with – a small hard drive – very soon. They already stopped mentioning their hard drive iPods. I wonder how many more years the Walkman brand will survive and if there will still be anything called iPod you can buy in twenty years from Apple.
- jessriedel 16y agoI wish they would come out with one more line of HD iPods. My 160GB is full, and it seems like the tech for a 500GB in that form factor should be here.
- ugh 16y agoI guess that’s just not how Apple rolls. If they were Sony they might drag out the death of the hard drive iPod another twenty years.
- lukifer 16y agoYou can get after-market 320gb upgrades, though they only work on the 5G series (iPod Video), not the Classics. But yeah, I too would pay quite a lot for a half-TB iPod.
- DannoHung 16y agoWhat I've always figured about the iPod classic is that as soon as they can cram 160 or so GB into the iPod touch that they're going to officially cancel the product line and clear out their old inventory of it.
- ScottBurson 16y agoHeh, I still have a WM-D6C Walkman Pro. Works perfectly. I even use it occasionally -- mostly for nostalgia value, I admit, though with metal tape and Dolby C, it sounds great.
- lutorm 16y agoI just realized we have a bunch of stuff on cassettes (kids recordings, etc) that I'd better get off before I can't find anywhere to play them....