RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116064770547880143
today, 25 years later, you can put a thing in your pocket that needs Wi-Fi or 5G to access your entire music collection that's stored in a datacenter the size of several city blocks and you must pay rent to your cell phone provider and to your music datacenter landlord to access it!
now that's called progress!
Did you know you can put your entire music collection into your pocket?!
ikr
Very clever way to putting perspective on advanced technology.
I'm old school so USB sticks & MP3 players are all around the house, autos, and man bag for hotels & get-togethers.
Every song is hand picked from the collection, which is pretty expansive, and every one I put on a device is great!*
*except those ones I put on a device for my wife
@thomasfuchs you can still buy devices with local storage and much much more of that than the old Apple, like Fiio and others, so streaming isn't the only replacement.
But the thing today has WiFi and more space than a Nomad, so is not lame.
@david_chisnall I'm specifically showing the 5GB OG iPod for this reason which could was advertised as " 1,000 songs in your pocket" and it can do that in reasonable quality.
On the plus side, I was in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt on vacation and I was able to play the Indiana Jones theme song on my phone as a joke.
@thomasfuchs and, in my experience, the files downloaded to your device will only *sometimes* play when you're offline
@ben i've had some disappear before as "not available in your region", like a single song out of a motherf'ckn concept album
awesome stuff
