Literally listening to my iPod as of writing. How are your Zunes, iRivers and SanDisk players doing?
"This liquid shit I currently have is fresh from the toilet, so it's better than the hot apple pie I had ten years ago from that bakery that shut down five years ago after eating shit got popular and they went out of business."
fucking lol mate, "shitty product outlasts its betters" is not the le epic pwn you think it is. This world would be a very different place (filled with very different people and products) if "merit" or "quality" was the dominant deciding factor governing public opinion and consumer electronics marketing.
Also I'm pretty sure those players are also still working. My old-ass Soul Player still works. Your snarky nonsense prompted me to go check. And I don't need to install malware to change what songs it plays.
ETA:
No love for the Sony Minidisc player? A solid metal shell that felt as high quality as it looked, allowing the option of drag and dropping files in an age of Itunes wiping Ipods and propriety files, a battery life that surpassed both portable cd players and Ipods and allowed for swapping media on the fly.
Sony should have persevered with that little machine, even turning into full solid state and releasing it as an MP3/FLAC player to keep the brand going and reducing costs. Buy a Sony Minidisk and have access to all of Sony's music via streaming subscription. They missed a trick for sure.
Sony hated it most of all, sadly. Minidisc was faaaaaaaar too flexible for the "new way" they saw coming -- clamping down media formats to their exclusive control, proprietary authentication/protocols so nobody else could mimic it or interoperate with it, and they've always been cunts about their physical media formats to begin with (DAT, Minidisc, Betamax, PS2/Magicgatel, Memory Stick, Blu-Ray ... they've tried
so many fucking times to popularize a proprietary media format but they just can't give up control enough for it to actually take off).
They're the (repeated, continuous) victim of design-by-committee where conflicting goals collide to destroy what could have been technologically innovative product lines. Minidisc, DAT and Betamax were all formidable technological developments but they had too many assholes from the legal department adding conflicting mandates (strict control over access to the protocols, copy-protection, etc.). All of Sony's good ideas and high-quality engineering have been killed by their lawyers, universally. Not one good thing Sony ever did that succeeded happened because they wanted it to. I think only Blu-Ray can be called a success, and that only because the patents are expiring while there's still at least one other manufacturer still in that business and able to capitalize on it.
