• glimse@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 day ago

    you can fit a stupendous amount of audio on even a cheap SD card

    The problem is that this gives it a very small market. Most people don’t download music anymore, they want streaming

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      21 hours ago

      right but like, a modern audio player should be very cheap to make, my fucking xiaomi smart watch cost 80 bucks and that would be a fair price for a device that meets my specifications above.

      And many people, like me, much prefer to have their music downloaded so it’s ALWAYS available, and if i could have a small handy device that can accept multiple SD cards that’d definitely be worth up to 100 dollars.

      I used to have this sony bluetooth reciever that just clips onto your clothes and outputs to plug-in headphones and it was great, something like that with maybe even TWO sd card slots and ample battery life would be amazing. Then just let me connect it to the phone to manage playlists and stuff and we’re golden.

      Or, you know, do what apple is doing, which honestly seems more and more genius the more i think about this… I don’t like when apple is objectively innovative… Also fuck patenting it, i don’t want it to be legally impossible for other companies to make the same thing, fuck off apple.

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        21 hours ago

        I don’t disagree! I also prefer offline music.

        I’d just imagine it’s a hard sell to mass manufacture

    • valkyre09@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 day ago

      I started imagining a small portable wearable device that you could sync music to with gps etc

      Accidentally invented the Apple watch lol

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        21 hours ago

        for all that i detest apple, their smartwatch is one of the neatest devices i know of and i dearly wish i could have an equivalent that runs android (and not the janky android wear os, i’ve had a watch with that and it was not appreciably better than whatever my xiaomi smart band runs).