Digital products’ status quo during Japan’s earthquake

    Japan’s earthquake brings Japanese disaster, as well as slows down the development of the IT industry in Japan, and even around the world. Digital industry is one of the fundamental industries of Japanese economy. The great brands like Sony, Nikon, Toshiba and Panasonic affect the digital areas significantly. 

But almost every aspect of Japanese high-tech areas is influenced by this cruel disaster. On the contrary, some new-born industries become Digital products’ shelter.

   Nikon and Canon factories are sporadically located in hit areas like Miyagi and Tochigi prefecture. The destruction of these two companies will lead to a bad effect on panel industry. Another alliance names IPS Alpha is reported shaking by the earthquake obviously. This alliance is united by Hitachi, Panasonic and Toshiba in the early time.

Chip is in shortage, because of the dead time of producing process caused by earthquake. Japan was the important base of producing chips. Even now companies have their own stocks for recent supply; the following sale will be delayed because of the transportation problem.

  Raw material of li-ion battery in Japan is relatively in good quality and during this earthquake; majority of their factories is frustrated. The shortage of notebook battery not only influences the market of digital camera and LCD panel, but also affects the sale of iphone4 and ipad2. The newest iphone4 and ipad2 may not be able to sufficiently supply.

Even some Japanese digital companies like Sonya, Panasonic and Sony show their market with LG, Samsung and Chinese companies; their occupancy rate is high before this disaster. They even support their battery to several giants like HP, Dell and Lenovo laptops. The shortage of chips and battery and other accessories may even lead to a crisis.

Death of Walkman

       Yesterday, Sony announced that it would stop Walkam production in the local place.This move marks a fade of walkman ,which is very popular in the eighties and nineties,from the our views.

       On July 1, 1979 ,Sony launched the first version of Walkman which is the first low-cost, portable music player. The products won a huge success in the market and Sony has sold 200 million this products totally.Walkman then fell to a flourishing stop today. In my opinion that led to the death of personal walkman have 3 main reasons.

      

     1. Cassette restrictions. In all fairness, walkman is a very great invention, but it had a fatal defects which exist from its first production : it cannot play without a cassette. If you want to hear a certain singer's music, you have to buy a cassette to listen to his albums,that means there is no cassette, walkman do not have any use. The cassette can only contain a dozen songs and if you want to change songs, you have to put it out and change another one.

     2. Rise of MP3. From the first MP3 is made at Korean in 1998 and it planted the seeds of decline for the walkman. MP3 can work without assistance.All you need to do is downloading the music ,maybe one hundred songs,from the Internet with a data cable to the computer.and nothing more, is that simple? It is easy to understand why walkman MP3 can beat it!

      3.Expensive cost. From the perspective of the machine only, walkman is indeed cheaper than MP3, but then what? Buying cassettes or downloading music from the Internet, which is more expensive? You know it.

 Have to admit, walkman is a very great invention, but the technology is always in progress.Who can guarantee that mp3  will not be the next walkman?

Allen Lu

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