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Sony, despite its iconic brand, remains out of step with the rest of the global technology world, and its talent for crowd-pleasing innovation has largely evaporated. It has been 20 years since the first Walkman mobile music player was introduced to the world. Apple in 2001 launched the iPod digital player, inspired by Sony's Walkman, in one move, ended Sony's dominance of the music player market and left little doubt that Sony would head for a full blown crisis.
