Yep, Slashdot is "news for nerds" and the ipod was the player that Steve Jobs was able to sell to hipsters. It was not the player that nerds wished they had.

Yep, Slashdot is "news for nerds" and the ipod was the player that Steve Jobs was able to sell to hipsters. It was not the player that nerds wished they had. This new thing seems close to silly. There have been a bunch of such projects on the rockbox forum and all of them bogged down. I suspect there are retrophiles out there who still want to use rotary dial phones. That is fine, but enough vintage rotary phones are available on ebay for those who want them, that someone trying to crowdfund a new one would face an uphill battle. This music player seems about the same way. Aren't there FIIO players that come a lot closer to the nerd dream anyway?