(11-06-2021, 08:21 AM)unilock Wrote: I feel like that's a bit of an unfair comparison; sure, nobody is using portable CD players anymore, but digital media (MP3, etc.) is still popular, as are NAND and microSD cards. Then again, all those have been combined into smartphones, so your point is reinforced - there's no longer much of a point in a dedicated PMP. But, with that mindset, what's the point of e.g. the PineCom? (Not sure of your opinion on that. In a vacuum, at least, my point still stands.)
Full desclosure, I have an MP3 player which I bought not so long ago.
I did that simply because all I really use my phone for outside of my house is listen to music, and once in a while inform my friends (or they inform me) that I will arrive late for some reason.
Since the one is battery consuming while the other is not, I thought an MP3 player would solve that problem.
I used to use my phone as a camera, but I recently bought 2 cameras (a video camera and a photo camera) which both make far superior quality over a Pixel or iPhone, and at the same time it's far easier to get files transfered to my PC (swapping SD cards vs connecting to NextCloud and waiting hours to upload and another few hours to download).
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