<i>"Sony sold a jaw-dropping 12 million floppies in Japan during 2009"</i><p>Who is still buying floppies in 2009? Maybe legacy systems where the only way to get data on or off of the device is via a floppy. I've see oscilloscopes like this ( i.e. <a href="http://www.atecorp.com/equipment/tek/TDS794D.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.atecorp.com/equipment/tek/TDS794D.asp</a> )
I still remember using my 5.25" floppy disks on my Commodore PC.<p>I haven't seen a blank pack of 3.25's in a while and thought they were already "dead".