Sony’s cassette Walkman dead: mix tapes mourn everywhere
A "modern" version of a classic
I know what you’re thinking: the cassette Walkman has been gone for over a decade already. Not true! Despite living in a world with iPods for nine years, Sony has continued to produce the cassette Walkmans in Japan for over 30 years since its inception in 1979.
On Friday, Sony announced that manufacturing of the cassette Walkmans is finished.1 For those of you with boxes of CDs, however, fear not: the Discman is still being produced, so you can take your single album “on the go” whenever you want.
When you bring this topic up tonight, here’s an interesting bit of trivia: despite being surpassed long ago by CDs and then digital music, Sony continued producing the cassette Walkman. Meanwhile, on the video front, VHS tapes haven’t been distributed since 2008. In other words, the Walkman outlasted the VCR, and apparently video did NOT kill the radio star.
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