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Most consumers don’t use any of those things any longer. Vinyl records, yes (mostly). I'm pretty sure the other two things are still in pretty wide use. [0] h
by Anechoic 7y ago
Most consumers don’t use any of those things any longer.
Vinyl records, yes (mostly). I'm pretty sure the other two things are still in pretty wide use.
[0] https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/27/media/ebooks-sales-real-books/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/27/media/ebooks-sales-real-boo...
[1] http://www.insideradio.com/who-s-listening-am-radio-by-the-numbers/article_a65caa4a-54b6-11e7-b58d-df9c58fd262d.html http://www.insideradio.com/who-s-listening-am-radio-by-the-n...
- sneak 7y agoSomething can be in widespread use and not hit the 51% threshold required by “most consumers”.
- spenczar5 7y agoClaim 1: there will be no paper money at all. Counter: obsolete things last longer than you think. Riposte: obsolete things are not used by most people. Counter-riposte: still used by many people. Counter-counter-riposte: technically, many != most. Somewhere, I think the original point was lost. This has been HN comment theater, the greatest arena of technical-yet-irrelevant correctness you can find.
- benj111 7y agoTechnically, I think you'll find that the new £50 notes won't be made out of paper at all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote
- buckminster 7y agoIt's all moot anyway. Banks don't issue £50 notes and nobody accepts them. Which is really very weird because a fifty now is only worth what a twenty was when I started work. And back then twenties were commonplace and fifties weren't especially rare. I suspect they only exist now to facilitate sketchy payments by HMG.
- dahart 7y agoVinyl sales have been increasing considerably for a decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_revival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_revival
- viraptor 7y agoAM radio is actively bring phased out in some places. For example in Australia.