I can’t remember when I traded pirating music for my zune/iTouch for Spotify, but I know back in 2008 we were still using MP3 players. We were still in relatively early years with MP3 players, too. In 2010 I was still using my jailbroke iTouch 3, so we were still in the MP3 era until at least 2010. People also joked back then about vinyl snobs who made “audiophile” part of their personality. Records were cool and record shops were able to stay in business. Cassette sales were down on the other hand, because we were still getting over the trauma of them getting jammed and the excitement of having high quality digital music.
OP must be very young and just looked up what year things came out, not what year things were used. Weren’t DVDs invented in the 80s?
Vinyl never actually stopped being the coolest, its a issue of affordability and convince, you cant put a Vinyl player in your car or carry it around all day…
Microsoft, Nov 2006: “we finally launched an iPod competitor”
Apple, Jan 2007: “standalone MP3 players are the past, behold the first multitouch smart phone”
Microsoft: “the Zune comes in brown”
Problem was, I only ever met like 3 people rocking a Zune at my college. You needed to convince your friend group to adopt it with you.
And like 3 months after the Zune launched, the gadget everyone was talking about was the first iPhone. The Zune was too late to the party. Everyone was about to jump to touch screen smartphones.
I remember around 2010 when Nokia smartphones were really good and could do much more than iPhones, but the marketing had already taken hold. Anything not iPhone was not considered a smartphone. Ironically.
IMHO, even though the OG iPhone lacked MMS, 3G, GPS, and even copy / paste, the web browsing, gestures, and software fit and finish were game changers that everyone scrambled to catch up with. Ditto with the App Store. iOS had an App marketplace that was pretty damn big by the time that Android phones started shipping.
IMHO, it wasn’t just marketing. There were compelling software features that made iOS something people wanted during 2007-2011
But back to the original point, the Zune kind of released right when everyone was migrating their music collections to smart phones. It was a terribly timed product.
And ironically, a lot of ground breaking touch screen work was being done in MS labs at the time. I remember seeing a lot of that demoed at conferences and in CS journals. If they had the foresight to apply that tech to their phones, the iPhone would’ve never taken off.
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what happened with spotify?
Stock up on cassettes right meow
So, are we all going to just ignore the 8tracks?
Where are the 8-tracks?
It’s a cartridge tape. Think cassette tape inside a nes cartridge
In Hell
Where it plays the same songs over and over in an endless loop. Until the head alignment gets off. Then it plays two different songs at the same time.
OP never heard of em.
And tape is just now starting to get popular again with the hipsters. Big reel-to-reel machines.
Place your bets on when playing midis on old Windows 3.1 computers will explode again!
excuse me, pirated cds were all the rage in eastern europe in 2008
I assume people buy Vinyls of their favourite artists as a kind of poster (which also physically contains the music)… not to actually listen to it.
I consider it a way of actually supporting them. Sure I listen to them digitally 99% of the time but they get such a small cut from that.
I guees I’m stuck in the 2000s as I still rocking my 10,000 mp3 collection lol
Vinyl was already cool again way before 2008.
Also, 2008 was the era of loading up iPods and the like. Spotify as a phenomenon is much more recent.
Also, USB?
Now that I think about it, just about everything in this meme is wrong…
Where are the mp3 players?
I can’t remember when I traded pirating music for my zune/iTouch for Spotify, but I know back in 2008 we were still using MP3 players. We were still in relatively early years with MP3 players, too. In 2010 I was still using my jailbroke iTouch 3, so we were still in the MP3 era until at least 2010. People also joked back then about vinyl snobs who made “audiophile” part of their personality. Records were cool and record shops were able to stay in business. Cassette sales were down on the other hand, because we were still getting over the trauma of them getting jammed and the excitement of having high quality digital music.
OP must be very young and just looked up what year things came out, not what year things were used. Weren’t DVDs invented in the 80s?
I mean, shit, I had an MP3 player in 1999. Yeah it only had 32 MB, but at 64kpbs, I coud store a whole album on there.
There was a brief period where sticking a thumb drive into the pioneer stereo was slick AF
Lol, this is off by decades and Spotify is away now popular than records right now
Lol some clueless zoomer made this
OK boomer
Vinyl never actually stopped being the coolest, its a issue of affordability and convince, you cant put a Vinyl player in your car or carry it around all day…
can’t you?
We are still in the era of Spotify?
Somehow for the majority of people yes. Despite them still being the one of the few services with no hifi
Well…yeah. it’s easy and convenient using something I already carry everywhere with me and sounds perfectly fine to the majority of people.
Well given this meme I figured it was just a stand in for streaming anyways.
Also I’m willing to bet the vast majority of people don’t even have the equipment to tell the difference between lossless and not.
What are you using?
Spotify and trying out Apple Music.
Flash drive? More like a iPod.
I had that Creative Zen, thing was thick
I had the Creative Zen Nano lol. It acted like a USB flash drive too if you needed it to.
of you go with ipod i guess you would put wurlizter and boombox
Zune or bust
Microsoft, Nov 2006: “we finally launched an iPod competitor” Apple, Jan 2007: “standalone MP3 players are the past, behold the first multitouch smart phone” Microsoft: “the Zune comes in brown”
Zune was the shit. Being able to share music wirelessly to those around you was so cool
And calling sharing ‘Squirting’ was just the icing on the cake. “Hey babe, are you a squirter? Because I got some sick tunes to give you….”
Problem was, I only ever met like 3 people rocking a Zune at my college. You needed to convince your friend group to adopt it with you.
And like 3 months after the Zune launched, the gadget everyone was talking about was the first iPhone. The Zune was too late to the party. Everyone was about to jump to touch screen smartphones.
I remember around 2010 when Nokia smartphones were really good and could do much more than iPhones, but the marketing had already taken hold. Anything not iPhone was not considered a smartphone. Ironically.
It’s a good thing Andriod happened then.
IMHO, even though the OG iPhone lacked MMS, 3G, GPS, and even copy / paste, the web browsing, gestures, and software fit and finish were game changers that everyone scrambled to catch up with. Ditto with the App Store. iOS had an App marketplace that was pretty damn big by the time that Android phones started shipping.
IMHO, it wasn’t just marketing. There were compelling software features that made iOS something people wanted during 2007-2011
But back to the original point, the Zune kind of released right when everyone was migrating their music collections to smart phones. It was a terribly timed product.
And ironically, a lot of ground breaking touch screen work was being done in MS labs at the time. I remember seeing a lot of that demoed at conferences and in CS journals. If they had the foresight to apply that tech to their phones, the iPhone would’ve never taken off.
I used to own a flash drive that’s also a mp3 player, it’s pretty neat
Where’s the mini disc???