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Re:Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable ... by qubex on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:10AM (#12785221)
At one point I had a solid-state Sony NW-MS7 Memory Stick Walkman (that wasn't quite an MP3 player because it was limited to only playing ATRAC files). For 1999, it was a usable and forward-looking piece of tech. Pity they crippled it with aforementioned ATRAC-only encoding (requiring file format conversion and re-encoding) and expensive Memory Stick proprietary media.
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Re:Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable ... by majewsky on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:58PM (#12789546)
Ah yes, Sony and expensive proprietary media. I remember paying a small fortune (for a teenager) for an 8 MB Memory Stick for use with the PlayStation 2.
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