<story><title>The Walkman, Forty Years On</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-walkman-forty-years-on</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noizejoy</author><text>Reminds me of how much Sony (along with Braun) shaped Apple’s hardware design language. And that in turn keeps on shaping many others.&lt;p&gt;And the walkman is arguably one of the classic cases of “build it, and they will come”, where a product was well ahead of what consumers were already calling for. In my mind, that’s the kind of thing actually deserving the &lt;i&gt;visionary&lt;/i&gt; label.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sizzle</author><text>I remember feeling like I was living in the future every time I listed to music on my Sony MiniDisc player while friends where still using their portable CD players with easily scratched disks before mp3 players became affordable and ubiquitous in high school.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;MiniDisc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;MiniDisc&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Walkman, Forty Years On</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-walkman-forty-years-on</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noizejoy</author><text>Reminds me of how much Sony (along with Braun) shaped Apple’s hardware design language. And that in turn keeps on shaping many others.&lt;p&gt;And the walkman is arguably one of the classic cases of “build it, and they will come”, where a product was well ahead of what consumers were already calling for. In my mind, that’s the kind of thing actually deserving the &lt;i&gt;visionary&lt;/i&gt; label.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway781237</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s quite interesting that all both the Thinkpad and the Mac are inspired in different ways from what could broadly be called the &amp;#x27;Japanese aesthetic&amp;#x27;.</text></comment>