It’s a cycle

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    Vinyl was already cool again way before 2008.

    Also, 2008 was the era of loading up iPods and the like. Spotify as a phenomenon is much more recent.

    Also, USB?

    Now that I think about it, just about everything in this meme is wrong…

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      I can’t remember when I traded pirating music for my zune/iTouch for Spotify, but I know back in 2008 we were still using MP3 players. We were still in relatively early years with MP3 players, too. In 2010 I was still using my jailbroke iTouch 3, so we were still in the MP3 era until at least 2010. People also joked back then about vinyl snobs who made “audiophile” part of their personality. Records were cool and record shops were able to stay in business. Cassette sales were down on the other hand, because we were still getting over the trauma of them getting jammed and the excitement of having high quality digital music.

      OP must be very young and just looked up what year things came out, not what year things were used. Weren’t DVDs invented in the 80s?

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      I mean, shit, I had an MP3 player in 1999. Yeah it only had 32 MB, but at 64kpbs, I coud store a whole album on there.

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      You’re right. This post appears to be closer to when the tech was invented vs when they became mainstream. CDs were invented in 1982 but usage really didn’t take off until adoption in the 90s.

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      Nothing really makes sense here.

      Cassettes weren’t big until the eighties and cd’s were nineties. USB? Sure, maybe. Spotify didn’t become available for the US until 2011 (I waited patiently for that). And vinyl has definitely been coming back for quite some time now.

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        Usb got big in like mid-00s.

        We were still using CD players till 2005. I remember somewhere in '04 or '05 when 128mb mp3 players went rampant.

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      And vinyl has been hot again for decades. Especially when it was the only medium for DJ’ing - before digital turntables became a thing. Major cities have been littered with hipster vinyl shops for like 20 years.

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        Microsoft, Nov 2006: “we finally launched an iPod competitor” Apple, Jan 2007: “standalone MP3 players are the past, behold the first multitouch smart phone” Microsoft: “the Zune comes in brown”

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          Problem was, I only ever met like 3 people rocking a Zune at my college. You needed to convince your friend group to adopt it with you.

          And like 3 months after the Zune launched, the gadget everyone was talking about was the first iPhone. The Zune was too late to the party. Everyone was about to jump to touch screen smartphones.

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            I remember around 2010 when Nokia smartphones were really good and could do much more than iPhones, but the marketing had already taken hold. Anything not iPhone was not considered a smartphone. Ironically.

            It’s a good thing Andriod happened then.

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              IMHO, even though the OG iPhone lacked MMS, 3G, GPS, and even copy / paste, the web browsing, gestures, and software fit and finish were game changers that everyone scrambled to catch up with. Ditto with the App Store. iOS had an App marketplace that was pretty damn big by the time that Android phones started shipping.

              IMHO, it wasn’t just marketing. There were compelling software features that made iOS something people wanted during 2007-2011

              But back to the original point, the Zune kind of released right when everyone was migrating their music collections to smart phones. It was a terribly timed product.

              And ironically, a lot of ground breaking touch screen work was being done in MS labs at the time. I remember seeing a lot of that demoed at conferences and in CS journals. If they had the foresight to apply that tech to their phones, the iPhone would’ve never taken off.

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          And calling sharing ‘Squirting’ was just the icing on the cake. “Hey babe, are you a squirter? Because I got some sick tunes to give you….”

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        I had the Creative Zen Nano lol. It acted like a USB flash drive too if you needed it to.

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        Well given this meme I figured it was just a stand in for streaming anyways.

        Also I’m willing to bet the vast majority of people don’t even have the equipment to tell the difference between lossless and not.

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        Well…yeah. it’s easy and convenient using something I already carry everywhere with me and sounds perfectly fine to the majority of people.