Which walkman are you talking about? Which had a clickwheel? Archos jukebox? Another crappy, useless MP3 player? With a shitty "display" and some usesless crosstype buttons to navigate?
The walkman concept was a portable device to play media like cassette tapes, CDs or MiniDisks. In your link is no Sony walkman before an iPod. No iPod ever used anything else than onboard drives to store media on, while all walkmen made the user carry a selection of media with him/her.
And why was the whole Archos jukebox concept turnt down in 2004? Only three years after introduction of the iPod? It's so damn easy to call Apple "copycats" but regarding their predecessors it very often turnt out Apple dared to rethink the whole concept and came out with something easy to use. Did you ever try to program a playlist of a CD in a discman? Or in your jukebox?
The walkman concept was a portable device to play media like cassette tapes, CDs or MiniDisks. In your link is no Sony walkman before an iPod. No iPod ever used anything else than onboard drives to store media on, while all walkmen made the user carry a selection of media with him/her.
And why was the whole Archos jukebox concept turnt down in 2004? Only three years after introduction of the iPod? It's so damn easy to call Apple "copycats" but regarding their predecessors it very often turnt out Apple dared to rethink the whole concept and came out with something easy to use. Did you ever try to program a playlist of a CD in a discman? Or in your jukebox?