Did anybody then buy a Discman? I had one of them but they didn't track well. Normal walking made it skip. In 2023 these are really outdated technology. Cell phones and Bluetooth and the streaming we have available have come too far for this kind of device to be relevant. Is there a car out there that doesn't have a Bluetooth radio? My car has Bluetooth and an Aux connector. Why? My only guess would be for people who continue to fight technology instead of adapt to it. When I want to listen to music, walking the dog usually, I connect to Amazon music, start a playlist I have created, connect my phone to the Bose QC35 nose canceling headphones, and off we go.

My last holdout Luddite friend finally bought a smart phone about 2 years ago and astonishingly was actually amazed by how much more it did than his flip phone. All I could do was shake my head, laugh and think "I have only been telling you that for like 5 years now!". His grandkids would want to video call him but his flip phone couldn't do it. That was the tipping point for him.

Much like the guy who continued to tell me the old chestnut of vinyl sounding better than digital recording. This from a guy who has tinnitus, uses hearing aids and can't hear above 3k. My own opinion is that I prefer a CD that sounds the same on the 1000th play as it did on the first. That same guy buys vinyl and immediately rips the tracks to WAV files so he doesn't scratch his vinyl. So then why spend money to buy vinyl of things you already have on CD? SMDH. When the 70+ generation is all dead I believe the dropoff is vinyl sales will be astonishing. This generation that never puts their cell phone down won't buy into that hype of "vinyl sounds better". Again my opinion but I really think that adage is just the war cry of the old people who know record players as "the right way".

Sony had good ideas but the execution of those portables is not relatable 40 years later due to the evolution of electronics.