NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Isn’t that what an mp3 players main purpose is?
MP3 players aren’t bad, they’re just mostly obsolete when smartphones can do the same thing and we mostly already have one.
I like to keep several GB of music on my phone from my MP3 library, and I have no streaming music accounts. I pay once for my music if I pay at all.
Your phone is an mp3 player. It just does other stuff too.
I remember when the iPhone came out, it was a little more than an iPod that made calls. The rest is history.
I think you might be misremembering; the original iPhone had YouTube, maps (though it lacked a GPS for whatever reason), a camera, Safari, and even a primitive HTML based App Store that paved the way for modern PWAs. Games like Bejeweled were available months before iOS 2.0 came with the App Store.
The Moto ROKR was an iPod that made calls.
There is a subsection of mp3 players that have enough power to drive high impedance headphones, Hifi players, some call them. They still make decent sales to their customer base of particular people.
Clearly
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes cause they can’t sell you a subscription for your mp3 player.
Fucking rent seeking behaviour from corporate parasites.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s the one thing idiocracy got wrong it wouldn’t be Costco it would be Rent-A-Center
Bags@piefed.social 3 days ago
Costco bought RAC in 2437 after Costco's CEO Harambe Memelord Disney Jr. offered RAC's CEO Squiggy John John John John Johnson a 2-for 1 deluxe latte coupon and an extra big-ass fry.