It's a really good example of how history is written by Americans. MiniDisc was a huge hit nearly everywhere except the USA, but it is now remembered as a "fail

It's a really good example of how history is written by Americans. MiniDisc was a huge hit nearly everywhere except the USA, but it is now remembered as a "failure" because it didn't catch on there. There was a window of a few years in the UK, Europe, and Asia where you could not get on a bus or train without seeing someone listening to MiniDisc. What finally killed it was the iPod.