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Offline psxphill

Re: On being too nostalgic: Tony Fadell mentions Amiga
« on: September 24, 2014, 01:01:05 AM »
Quote from: hishamk;773759
I mean, there are people out there who still want the Commodore 64 or the Amiga to come back.

I don't think anyone expects the commodore 64 to make a come back to the level it had in the 80's/90's. I think there are some people who think that AmigaOS or MorphOS could increase it's market share massively, but it isn't going to happen. It's not coming back, but sometimes things get released that allow you to pretend for a while that they never left.

Similarly there will always be people who own classic cars (when we run out of fossil fuels they will be powered with Mr Fusion). Sometimes the thing that makes it special is that there are fewer and fewer of them left every year.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: On being too nostalgic: Tony Fadell mentions Amiga
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2014, 11:53:54 AM »
Quote from: Minuous;773790
The data it is either on the device or not. If you don't have to download it, it's being stored somewhere on the device, so not cloud-based. In which case why would you still need an Internet connection?

 Your hard disk doesn't disappear because your OS has cached some files.
 
 The internet doesn't disappear because your web browser has cached a web page.
 
 A cloud doesn't disappear because your device has cached a song.
 
 You don't need an internet connection, people demand an internet connection because it makes it more convenient. You get a cheaper and more rugged device and when you buy songs on iTunes you don't have to sync them to your iPod. Walking around with a magnetic hard disk that will die if you shake it too much or some immensely expensive flash based device that you have to manually sync with a PC, is just not attractive to modern users.
 
 A lot of these people will end up just having an iPod/iPhone/iPad and no computer, because that is what they want.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: On being too nostalgic: Tony Fadell mentions Amiga
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2014, 09:54:42 AM »
Quote from: Minuous;773809
iPhones are about the least rugged devices out there, a drop of approximately one foot is sufficient to break the screen and render it unusable. That seems to be the most likely point of failure, the ruggedness of the storage is secondary.

A hard disk will fail before an iPhone screen is dropped. But if you do kill your iPhone then at least you just buy a new one and type your details in and all your music is back again.

Quote from: Minuous;773809
If you have all your files on your device there is no need to use the cloud. You could copy all the songs from your device to your friend's device, and vice versa, faster than downloading them all from a cloud account (not to mention data caps). Cloud-based storage might be useful for backing up unimportant files to, but another hard disk would generally be better for various reasons (cost, speed, security, etc.).

So every time you buy music you have to go to your friends house to back it up? Music is unimportant, you got the copy from them in the first place and they'll give you the same one again. The only important thing is to keep track that you bought it.

I don't use it myself, but I understand why people love it enough to pay for it.

Quote from: Minuous;773809
I think you mean "if" not "when". (Why buy songs there, that seems a very expensive way to do it when they are freely downloadable elsewhere...)

Illegally downloading music isn't free. It takes time, electricity, bandwidth etc. You should treat it like a job, with the cost of the music minus your expenses as the pay. If you can make more money doing something else then buying the music is cheaper, which for a lot of people it is.