• @[email protected]
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      Yes cause they can’t sell you a subscription for your mp3 player.

      Fucking rent seeking behaviour from corporate parasites.

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        That’s the one thing idiocracy got wrong it wouldn’t be Costco it would be Rent-A-Center

        • Bags
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          Costco bought RAC in a stunning buyout 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.

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      Correct, if you ain’t streaming from corpo, you are denying them engagement and profits

      That’s a crime, shit Lord

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      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 at most.

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          621 days ago

          I remember when the iPhone came out, it was a little more than an iPod that made calls. The rest is history.

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            721 days ago

            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.

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              You’re right. It was released almost at the same time as the 1st gen iPod touch, and that iPod ran the same OS as the iPhone (then named iPhone OS). I thought the iPod touch came before, it didn’t. The iPod classic was significantly different from the iPhone.

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              Tbh there also was iPod Touch, which did everything iPhone did except making calls.

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        721 days ago

        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.