{"id":10776,"date":"2010-10-22T20:50:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=10776"},"modified":"2010-10-22T20:50:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:50:39","slug":"yep-sony-killed-casette-walkman-sharp-killed-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/yep-sony-killed-casette-walkman-sharp-killed-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Yep, Sony Killed Casette Walkman, Sharp Killed PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst Apple reported<\/a> to kill the CD in U.S., there are two big Japanese companies turned out to kill other legacy products.<\/p>\n

Last Cassette Walkman<\/h3>\n

SankeiBiz reported<\/a> [J] that Sony said on 22nd that they had finished domestic shipment of cassette tape Walkman at the end of April 2010. The last 5 models (WM-EX651, WM-GX410, WM-GX788, WM-GX202 and WM-EX202) can be purchased only when they are in stock. Outside of Japan, Sony will keep selling the consignment products made by Chinese makers.
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\nThe newest model seems to be WM-EX651<\/a>, was shipped on October 2004.
\nSony also terminated 3.5 inch Floppy Disk sales in April 2010 in Japan<\/a> [J].<\/p>\n

Sharp stopped PC sale<\/h3>\n

Asahi reported<\/a> [J] that Sharp disclosed yesterday 21st October that they had discontinued PC development in 2009, two years ago.
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\nSharp keeps No.1 position in Japanese cellphone market with 26.2%, over 9 million set<\/a> [J]. They also are aiming at e-book market with a new brand Galapagos<\/a>, the first model of which will be sold this December, 2010.<\/p>\n

See Also:<\/h3>\n

Source Next takes USB Memory Software Package from CD-ROM<\/a> – since 2008, they switched some of their software packages to USB memory based.
\nSharp Mebius (Note PC brand) support page<\/a> pulldown list only shows until 2009. [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whilst Apple reported to kill the CD in U.S., there are two big Japanese companies turned out to kill other legacy products. Last Cassette Walkman SankeiBiz reported [J] that Sony said on 22nd that they had finished domestic shipment of cassette tape Walkman at the end of April 2010. The last 5 models (WM-EX651, WM-GX410,… Continue reading Yep, Sony Killed Casette Walkman, Sharp Killed PC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[574,2841,3293,3454,3466,3924,4021],"class_list":["post-10776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-cassette","tag-pc","tag-sharp","tag-sony","tag-sourcenext","tag-usb-memory","tag-walkman","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}