La Game Boy était au jeu vidéo ce que le Walkman avait été pour Sony. En sacrifiant la technologie de pointe au profit de la portabilité et d’un prix attractif, ils en ont écoulé 118,7 millions d’exemplaires, ce qui en fait, de très loin, la console la plus vendue au vingtième siècle. Pas mal pour la première entreprise qui fut autorisée à vendre d

Bill’s audio oscillator represented the first practical, low-cost method of generating high-quality audio frequencies needed in communications, geophysics, medicine, and defense work. The audio oscillator was to become the Hewlett-Packard Company’s first product.

Before Sony, radios, tape recorders, and record players were furniture. They were large and expensive, and manufacturers competed to offer the purest sound—“hi-fidelity” was the buzzword. Sony changed that. Transistors allowed for tiny, cheap, battery-powered radios, which meant that music could be consumed by an individual rather than a household.