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Why Sony Can't Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models

21 pointsby speckxtoday at 6:08 PM7 commentsview on HN

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sdevonoestoday at 7:09 PM

Got it. But then why Nike/Adidas/Quicksilver/etc cannot bring back clothes from the 90s?

Buying second hand is not that nice (smells that never go away) and “vintage” places sell min. catalogue buy way overpriced.

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jeromechootoday at 7:17 PM

If mechanical time keeping hadn’t made the leap to luxury, I wonder if it would’ve ended up in the same situation as walkmans.

ChrisArchitecttoday at 6:18 PM

When I hear Walkman I only think of cassette tape, not MD, but whatever...

Minidisc understandably gone away (until maybe hipsters revive that too like they have with tapes?) but on the tape front ... Maxell thinks they have something with cassette players.... wonder if/how these are selling:

Maxell MXCP-P100 – wireless cassette player

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497781

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