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What technologies were ubiquitous ten years ago and are much less common now?
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Independent portable media players. Most of those functions have been susumed by phones.
Which makes me frustrated that all the manufacturers have gotten too cheap to toss a miniscule DAC and headphone jack in phones anymore.
Headphone jack and micro SD cards and the biggest losses for me.
I don't think it's about them being cheap, it's that they want to sell you the matching wireless headset
and it's much easier to DRM
Well there are excellent DACs that you can use with USB-C and Lightning straight from your phone...
The functions of this player have not been subsumed into a phone.
That’s pretty nifty! I’ve been looking at a personal AMFM radio/MP3 player recently, but I really like the CD ripping function of that one.
I haven't tried the CD ripping, but my jaw was on the floor the first time I saw the feature list. Decent build and battery too.
I’ll watch the whole video later and check out the other features, I just watched the first 30 seconds or so. It’s something I could see myself picking up, but I’m not sure I’d use it as a portable very much since it’s kind of larger. Maybe keeping it in my purse or book bag would work.
This is the one I’ve been looking at, but I need to look into reviews first. I love that both of these have a slot for a card.
https://www.bestbuy.com/product/home-collection-pocket-digital-am-fm-radio-with-lcd-screen-mp3-player/J2FPCPVL5Z
It has nubs