We love Apple ’s new ad campaign for the iPod in Japan , which feature the shibboleth “ Hello iPod , Goodbye , MD ” , a extension to Sony ’s Mini Disc player . Sony really dropped the ball by letting Apple get a foothold in the portable audio market , with the Walkman they had much owned the entire notion of carrying your medicine around with you for over two tenner . Now Apple is close to shipping its millionth iPod , and Sony does n’t even make a decent MP3 player . Of naturally , selling a million iPods in 20 months , while telling , is not that vast a number when you earn that from 1979 to 1999 Sony manage to sell over 186 million Walkman cassette players , an norm of over nine million a class . Apple still has a tenacious way to go to before it ’ll achieve the ubiquity that Sony once possessed .
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