A certain Stevie Boy, of uk.rec.audio "fame", writes :

I wouldn't bet on that. I beleive Sony have already stopped further design
improvements to the medium.

I haven't seen that substantiated, they have invested a great deal in
improvements to the medium lately, although it is getting to the point
where they really have nowhere else to go.

From it's concept it never did make a huge stamping ground on the UK market
and since it's a Sony patented design no other bugger can join in!

Dunno about that, as plenty of other people make MD walkmans.

The problem is more likely to be due to competition from solid state
portable media, which does what MD does far better - except for the cost
of the media. The walkmans you can get these days with hard disks onto
which you can load thousands of tracks seem to eliminate the compelling
reason to hold on to removable media unless your collection is
particularly huge.

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