There’s a lot of things that I will give credit about with my 3rd gen nano. It was small enough to fit in the aging german center console. Normally reserved for pens and toll change. The premium metal feel really was good to the touch, elevated above the ocean of squeaky plastic junk that filled the isles of stores.…

They were literally just doing shit other people were already doing. MP3 players and Napster were already things that existed, and did their jobs better than any of the crap that Apple produced and marketed as being their own inventions.

Sony is still rocking the Walkman, thank goodness. Plays FLACs, ALACs, and everything else. Marketed as “High Resolution,” which is an undefined term, but mine sounds absolutely superb on good in ear monitors. With wires, dammit!

Came here to say the same; I got a Diamond Rio back in ‘98 or something...the iPod didn’t change jack-shit. Pretty sure I even had a DVD / MP3-CD player in my car before the iPod dropped.

He has a valid point. Apple takes other people’s ideas and markets them, that’s their entire business. We shouldn’t give them credit for inventing it, all they did was sell it to people who weren’t tech savvy enough to use what already existed.

Sorry but I am all for celebrating what actually revolutionized things not what is the most popular. Apple has done an incredible job of making people think they invented everything.

Young man, there was a time before phones had the capability of holding music.

Except for it didn’t. I had an MP3 player before the ipod. Let me know when we are lamenting the loss of cd players.

I have a 6G iPod Nano that runs all the music in my car currently. The thing’s close to fifteen years old and still holds a charge that’ll last two weeks. And yes, I’m still waiting for people to break into the software so I can get custom clock faces and backgrounds. Never give up hope!

That said, the death of the…

Never owned one, was always able to just move songs that i got from ... the internet... using certain methods.. directly onto my android phones.

They will sell every one of these they can make (chip shortages aside) because American’s are obsessed with the whole “This is my giant, impenetrable, rolling fortress of awesomeness that clearly make me superior to you”, thing. And we don’t tax trucks that get terrible mileage because you know... ‘Merica.

It is exempt from the gas guzzler tax like every other SUV, truck, or minivan.

God DAMN, that’s one ugly ride. Slap on some fake wood trim and a coat of Metallic Pea and you’re ready for a Vacation reboot.

I saw one of these things in the mountainous flesh a few days ago at a Hobby Lobby.

It certainly has...presence. Like having a life-sized marble statue of yourself on your coffee table.

It’s just so damn big. Like, I know that Escalades and Suburbans are big, too, but somehow they don’t appear any bigger than a…

Real answer is:

So, it´s the “Poser package”: auto+noise.

The requirements haven’t changed and if you had just followed the law there wouldn’t be a problem.

I for one won’t miss the Harley guys at all when they go quiet. 

“but it can super quiet when you need to use the phone or want to hear the radio (or not draw attention from the cops).”

Russian troll is strong on this one poster

You probably shouldn’t ask his opinion of Dr. Fauci.