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Originally Posted by murraypaul
That depends on what you consider an MP3 player to be, surely?
My iPod Touch has a lot more features than my iPod Classic.
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The big thing that's suffered (primarily because of Apple's dominance, I think) is format support. You just don't see as many formats supported as you used to. I had an MP3 player that could play:
MP3
OGG
WMA
FLAC
And it did it all handily. You don't see a lot of devices like that anymore. Of course, some would argue that you don't
need WMA, but OGG and FLAC sure come in handy. The same player not only had a radio, but it could
trasmit its signal to a radio, so you could listen to your music on your car stereo or stereo at home without using wires. (This was way before Bluetooth.)
The same can be said of video support.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
So has the market has segmented into two:
a) Bargain basement offerings with minimal functionality
b) Multi-function devices that have absorbed the original functionality
Which sounds like what is being discussed about eBook readers too.
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I think the problem is that even the
high-end MP3 players don't have the features the MP3 players used to have.