1) Yes, but HDDs will still be around for a few more years. I don't see large SSDs selling for chips just yet. 2) Yes, but so do all HDDs so that really isn't a valid argument. I could go out and buy an iPod or external desktop drive, use it for a month and discover it's failed too. 3) People still prefer some kind of "Hi-Fi"-ish device to handle their music at home. Whilst I personally use my computer hooked up to a good amp and bookshelf speakers, not everyone has that. They might have a POS PC which is a poor excuse to use a music device. Same for hooking up their DAP to some speakers.
I think there is still a market for this, but its diminishing very quickly.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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1) Yes, but HDDs will still be around for a few more years. I don't see large SSDs selling for chips just yet.
2) Yes, but so do all HDDs so that really isn't a valid argument. I could go out and buy an iPod or external desktop drive, use it for a month and discover it's failed too.
3) People still prefer some kind of "Hi-Fi"-ish device to handle their music at home. Whilst I personally use my computer hooked up to a good amp and bookshelf speakers, not everyone has that. They might have a POS PC which is a poor excuse to use a music device. Same for hooking up their DAP to some speakers.
I think there is still a market for this, but its diminishing very quickly.