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This exact same thing happened during every media transition. When albums stopped being available on tape, people who refused to upgrade to a CD player were le
by blhack 13y ago
This exact same thing happened during every media transition. When albums stopped being available on tape, people who refused to upgrade to a CD player were left behind.
The same thing is happening to you, here. You're not getting a new phone (you like your current phone just fine), so you're getting left behind.
Don't lose any sleep over it. If you want to "extra" content badly enough, you'll get the right device to play it.
- Kapura 13y agothe thing about the other media transitions is that they weren't happening at this accelerated rate. Records had a good, long run before cassette tapes; which were around for quite a while before they were surpassed by CDs. I got my phone, like, not that long ago. I'd upgrade in a heartbeat if there were a good, modern smartphone with a physical keyboard though. But hey, you can't have everything in life.
- jacquesm 13y agoTape never supplanted vinyl, it complemented it (read/write vs read-only).
- foobarbazqux 13y agoKids in high schools moved in phases from vinyl to cassette tapes (many of which were purchased with music on them) to CDs to mp3s and they're the largest music-buying demographic. Few people bought pop songs on vinyl once they were available on cassette. But I think you're right from the perspective of a recording engineer, or anybody who used reel-to-reel at home, or someone who bought underground punk records all through the 80s, etc.
- mtrimpe 13y agoI went from cassettes to CDs to MP3 all before I left high school though.