Why Apple blows, go zune Options

[Oasis]

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/94465

[Mommy]

It's the same thing with the Walkman and the Boombox. I mean, we still use portable music devices, but nobody calls them by the term "Walkman" anymore. People say cassette player or cd player. The Walkman was just a popular brand. Back in the day though people said "Walkman" when talking about their device.

[Oasis]

It's the same thing with the Walkman and the Boombox. I mean, we still use portable music devices, but nobody calls them by the term "Walkman" anymore. People say cassette player or cd player. The Walkman was just a popular brand. Back in the day though people said "Walkman" when talking about their device.

Walkmans went out of style whenever CD's came in to style, and were hence replaced by Discmans, because no one bought cassette tapes anymore. Discmans went out of style whenever MP3's came in to style. Why buy a Discman to listen to a CD when I can buy an MP3 player and copy my CD on to it, along with all my other downloaded MP3's? Walkmans and Discmans went out of style because the music storage devices that they played became obsolete

The only way I can see Ipods or MP3 players going out of style is if some medium replaced MP3's. The only medium I can see replacing MP3's is some sort of HD radio on demand service, where you can listen to any song at any time. The "any where" part might be a problem though, since I doubt any HD radio provider could provide full reception to everywhere in the country. I don't think the signals would be strong enough to pull that off in the immediate future.