@EricAlper Yes, this is old.

However:

It did not have in-app purchases.

Oh, it didn't come with #ads.

It had no direct or indirect #expiration date where it stopped working altogether.

It continued working even when its original #manufacturer went out of business.

You really owned it.

It had no dependency to the #cloud.

There were no features that stopped working because of some remote marketing guy decided so.

It didn't contain call-back routines to the manufacturer.

It did not listen to its surrounding and generate #voiceprofiles for all people you meet.

It didn't spy on its buyers and sell those voice profiles an other very personal #data to #brokers which resell to #insurances, #advertisement companies and worse.

You could actually go to any electronic shop to get it repaired.

It was not overpriced.

It just played #music. It was perfect.

#capitalism #surveillance #entshittification #hifi #hardware #products