Since it appeared in 2001, the iPod has become this decade's answer to the Sony Walkman.

自从2001年ipod问世以来，它已经成了索尼walkman的替代者。

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So was the loaner iPod, poolside Sony Location-free TV, and loaner Kindle.

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Jobs surely hasn't forgotten that before the introduction of the iPhone, Sony seemed poised (briefly) to derail Apple's iPod when it slapped the Walkman brand on a line of music-friendly Sony Ericsson handsets that have sold well in Japan.

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The topic of greatest attention in social media last week, by contrast, was a BBC Magazine story about a 13-year-old English kid who gave up his iPod for a week to try an original model of a Sony Walkman, according to Pew.

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