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The iPod revolutionised the portable music players - just like Sony had done with the Walkman. In 2004 alone, Apple had sold close to 8.2 million units of the iPod. Apple made several design iterations to the iPod and released a new model almost every year, and they were lapped up. In 2003, iTunes Music Store became online and the iPod really started flying off the shelves. In the first 14 months since its launch, Apple had sold close to 600,000 iPods. It was the sleek design and ease-of-use that made iPod wildly popular. Storage capacity, however, wasn’t the iPod’s talking point. While a host of brands made portable audio cassette players, they were all referred to as the Walkman.Īpple iPod: The game-changer of portable music players “You can fit your whole music library in your pocket,” said Steve Jobs while introducing the iPod in 2001. Sony sold over 400 million units of WalkMan and officially retired it in 2010. From Timbuktu to Trivandrum, the Walkman was what the Apple iPod became in the early 2000s: a device the cool kids carried and something which everyone wanted. The millennials might not be able to relate to the phenomenon – and it was truly a phenomenon that lasted for close to two decades – but the Walkman was a device that and made you ‘cool’. The Walkman: Where it all started The Sony Walkman was introduced to the world on Jand was perhaps one of the first lifestyle gadget. Portable music players - in whatever form - have been a part of popular culture for more than four decades now. After the Walkman, came the Discman, which gave way to MP3 players, that in turn led to the birth of iPod, which was the genesis of the iPhone in more than one way and the world since then has never been the same.
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