I compared the iPod and the walkman etc. sold by 100 million units in 5 and half years

At the other day GIGAZINE,Apple sold 100 million iPods in five and a half yearsWe took up the fact that we have compared how much that record is with Sony's "Walkman" and "Playstation", Nintendo's "Game Boy" and Microsoft's iPod music player "Zune" etc. .

If you look at this, you can realize how wonderful the record is 100 million units in 5 and half years.

Details are as follows.
Apple's Speed ​​Record - Forbes.com

According to this article, Sony's Walkman, which is suitable for comparison with the iPod, seems to have shipped 350 million units since its launch in 1979. However, it took 13 and a half years for Walkman to sell 100 million units. By the way it seems that Walkman of that time was a cassette tape model.

Also, although there are not many products themselves that can sell 100 million units by household electrical appliances in the first place, while PlayStation (PS), which is the same Sony game machine, will sell 100 million units, PS1 will be 10 years, PS2 will be 5 years and 8 months It took Nintendo's Game Boy took 11 years. From that point you can also see how great this iPod's recording is.

And finally"Zune" Microsoft released last November 14However, Microsoft is predicting that it will sell 1 million units by the end of June 2007.