Subj : Re: Bye Bye iPod
To   : Arelor
From : Ennev
Date : Thu May 12 2022 07:48:17

 > Even cheap feature phones can double as an mp3 and radio players these days.
 > There is not much of a reason for having a vanity portable music player
 > anymore.
 
I think that vanity played a lot. A kid wouldn't want to be seen with something
else; it was a status thing.

But the other aspect was simplicity, I guess. Where we are all a bunch of geeks
familiar with tech, we can rip, recode, format, and copy stuff in our sleep.
But for most people, it's not the case. I guess that close-up platform brought
simplicity and a clear path to do things; it's the only path but a path that
will work.

How many of you set up players for relatives and friends? I think they were
loading it up at purchase for a lot of users, and then the player never got any
new files into them.

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