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Post by wildojinx on Jan 4, 2013 1:06:03 GMT -5
I was at wal-mart looking at MP3 Players, and they only had a small selection of non-ipod players (the ipods were in their own section). I remember that there used to be a lot more, and the selection was more varied. Has apple completely taken over the market on mp3 players more or less?
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Post by Mayonnaise on Jan 4, 2013 1:30:13 GMT -5
More smart phones taking over than Apple by itself I think.
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Post by corndog on Jan 4, 2013 1:47:29 GMT -5
^This, most phones have mp3 players and can hold just as many songs as most mp3 players.
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Post by tartsonawire on Jan 4, 2013 1:57:31 GMT -5
Slowly but surely, yes.
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Post by THE Baldy Kendrick on Jan 4, 2013 1:58:08 GMT -5
The last time I worked in an electronics department, we had both iPods and non-iPod MP3 players. 85% of the sales were iPods.
No point in trying to compete with a thousand other guys for a tiny portion of a less-profitable category (more products = more competition = lower prices = lower profit margins).
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 4, 2013 2:02:08 GMT -5
^This, most phones have mp3 players and can hold just as many songs as most mp3 players. Can smartphones be used as mp3 players without having to use the phone portion at all (ie, not having to sign up for a data plan), or do you need the phone part to activate it? |
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Post by Father Dougal McGuire on Jan 4, 2013 2:40:29 GMT -5
In my experence my crappy net10 phone with cost $20 combined with a 3 dollar micro sd card replaced my sansa mp3 player years ago. Can smartphones be used as mp3 players without having to use the phone portion at all (ie, not having to sign up for a data plan), or do you need the phone part to activate it? I don't know about Iphones, but my friend has an android smartphone, and it has a wi-fi option and a micro sd card slot. |
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Jan 4, 2013 2:52:33 GMT -5
If any one else made a decent high capacity player I would be on it. I have had a 120 gig Ipod for a while, just got a 160 for Christmas. I need the space for my music (and no I will not delete stuff, defeats the purpose of having a thing that is supposed to hold all my music!)
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 4, 2013 3:16:17 GMT -5
Like a lot of gadgets they're all being absorbed into smart phones.
Much like dedicated GPS devices are becoming more rare, because every smartphone has access to google or apple maps.
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Post by willywonka666 on Jan 4, 2013 7:37:04 GMT -5
Streaming music is what it's coming to. It's wild really, because vinyl albums used to be the thing, then cassettes and cds came in and we lost things like album artwork, and now, slowly but surely, we're becoming accepting of not having a physical product at all.
I will always collect records yea, but think about your kids, or their kids, they aren't going to grow up with that kind of physical product really.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2013 11:01:33 GMT -5
Yeah - smartphones/tablets are definitely going to be dominating that market soon. Like others said, they multitask things that used to be done by many different devices.
It also helps they're finally getting over the short battery life hump so using a smartphone for music isn't as futile as your phone won't die in a couple of hours anymore.
I still like my lil Sansa MP3 for going to the gym, but for more casual use a smartphone probably makes more sense.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jan 4, 2013 11:04:10 GMT -5
Even a good portion of iPods now are just iPhones with the actual phone internals deactivated/removed.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2013 14:19:05 GMT -5
In my experence my crappy net10 phone with cost $20 combined with a 3 dollar micro sd card replaced my sansa mp3 player years ago. Can smartphones be used as mp3 players without having to use the phone portion at all (ie, not having to sign up for a data plan), or do you need the phone part to activate it? I don't know about Iphones, but my friend has an android smartphone, and it has a wi-fi option and a micro sd card slot. Which is what my phone has. And you can probably buy a 32GB one for around $25-30, which is actually the size of my .mp3 player that I use for car trips and mowing the lawn. But yeah, between the smartphones, and the services said phones apply (like iTunes, and Spotify, among others), I'm not shocked that the .mp3 player is going the way of the dodo. |
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Post by Blindkarevik on Jan 4, 2013 15:37:34 GMT -5
I've been rocking Spotify for the past year, and with that... I find little need to put any songs on my phone other than ones that aren't licensed for use with Spotify. Honestly, since I started using the program, I have had a difficult time even justifying using my IPod... I sold it about a month or two ago and really haven't missed it. Which is odd, since before then... my Ipod was basically my lifeline, it was the one thing that traveled with me everywhere.
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Post by eDemento2099 on Jan 4, 2013 18:31:32 GMT -5
The MP3 format is ancient; far better music formats yielding better compression rates have come along. Reading the title of this thread, I was hopeful that someone was going to talk about a rising popularity in DAPs that support formats like Ogg Vorbis and Flac.
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Post by xCompackx on Jan 4, 2013 18:58:00 GMT -5
Well to a large degree yes, but I'm sure there's still uses for MP3 players. Though for me, I can't go back to having something that isn't my iPod touch. It does everything I want (well, except phone calls).
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Post by DoubleDare on Jan 4, 2013 19:00:45 GMT -5
I like my sansa clip mp3 player just fine, its nice and small!
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jan 4, 2013 21:35:48 GMT -5
Streaming music is what it's coming to. It's wild really, because vinyl albums used to be the thing, then cassettes and cds came in and we lost things like album artwork, and now, slowly but surely, we're becoming accepting of not having a physical product at all. I will always collect records yea, but think about your kids, or their kids, they aren't going to grow up with that kind of physical product really. A lot of artists and bands make a good chunk of change selling vinyl editions of their material to dedicated fans, so it's not like album artwork is totally irrelevant. (Plus the artwork's still there for you to see on your phone/ipod/player.) |
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Post by psychokiller on Jan 4, 2013 21:55:38 GMT -5
I have a Samsung Galaxy Player. It's a very good device. It's basically the same thing as an Ipod Touch, just it runs on Android. It plays music very well & I highly recommend it.
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Post by xCompackx on Jan 4, 2013 23:15:47 GMT -5
I have a Samsung Galaxy Player. It's a very good device. It's basically the same thing as an Ipod Touch, just it runs on Android. It plays music very well & I highly recommend it. Actually, I would really recommend that as well because it has something that iPod doesn't have: SD expansion. |
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