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This is how some even older people feel about smartphones :p

Some of this is the lack of a killer app and some of this will be generational. At some point the 10-30yos will be more used to being permanently plugged in than not. (we're probably already there in some senses, but will go through the same adoption cycle again for AR/VR imo)

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> This is how some even older people feel about smartphones :p

I walked around listening to cassette tapes on my walkman and couldn't imagine why anyone would want an "mp3 player" with all the hassles of loading 100 songs at a time onto a computer and then onto the thing etc etc. Minidiscs seemed cool tho?

~5 years later I got an iPod with 10gig of storage and holy shit it was the best thing I'd ever encountered. All my music. Immediately. All the time.

why would i spend 15 minutes copying a CD to the computer and another 15 copying it to the device, the man thought to him self while making a 90minute mix tape.

I still miss making mix tapes, it was super fun trying to get the timings right and make sure the tracks lined up nicely etc :(

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