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[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

MP3 players aren't bad, they're just mostly obsolete when smartphones can do the same thing and we mostly already have one.

I like to keep several GB of music on my phone from my MP3 library, and I have no streaming music accounts. I pay once for my music at most.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your phone is an mp3 player. It just does other stuff too.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember when the iPhone came out, it was a little more than an iPod that made calls. The rest is history.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think you might be misremembering; the original iPhone had YouTube, maps (though it lacked a GPS for whatever reason), a camera, Safari, and even a primitive HTML based App Store that paved the way for modern PWAs. Games like Bejeweled were available months before iOS 2.0 came with the App Store.

The Moto ROKR was an iPod that made calls.

[–] shroomato@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Tbh there also was iPod Touch, which did everything iPhone did except making calls.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

You're right. It was released almost at the same time as the 1st gen iPod touch, and that iPod ran the same OS as the iPhone (then named iPhone OS). I thought the iPod touch came before, it didn't. The iPod classic was significantly different from the iPhone.

There is a subsection of mp3 players that have enough power to drive high impedance headphones, Hifi players, some call them. They still make decent sales to their customer base of particular people.