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Looks like the 'usual' capacity went from 8 GB to 32 GB and anything over $50 disappeared, in lieu of dozens of inexpensive devices from Chinese manufacturers?
by maxerickson 5y ago
Looks like the 'usual' capacity went from 8 GB to 32 GB and anything over $50 disappeared, in lieu of dozens of inexpensive devices from Chinese manufacturers?
- walterbell 5y agoFor example, Sony Walkman price range is $45 - $8500, https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders/c/walkman-mp3-players https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders...
- maxerickson 5y agoThat seems to be exceptional, there's hundreds of inexpensive devices listed on Amazon with greater capacity than you'd have got for $100 in 2011.
- walterbell 5y agoA decade ago, there were more MP3 player choices with low cost and good quality, even supporting open-source firmware. Now there is low cost/quality and high cost/quality. This thread has more details, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26870648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26870648 There was a time when laptops had 4:3 screens. Then the market changed because of demand for HD-video screen ratios. Today, the only portable option for 13" 4:3 screens (vertical real estate for text editing) is iPad Pro. Hyperscaler cloud vendors can now order custom CPUs that are simply unavailable to retail. There's an endless list of markets which have been altered as demand volume shifts from one segment to another.