Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks
by thaumasiotes on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:18PM
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> cars didn't have USB inputs in 2007 so I see how the Stone could be useful.
The car had been purchased by my grandmother and its only methods of playing sound were (1) the radio and (2) the cassette deck.
Prior to the Stone, I used a portable CD player with an audio-cable-to-cassette-tape adapter. The audio cable plugged into the Stone just fine.
I find this an interesting example. If my car had had the current-generation technology (a built-in CD player), I would have been stuck with CDs. But having past-generation technology meant that I could use the existing tape-to-CD-player compatibility shim to plug in the Stone.
The car had been purchased by my grandmother and its only methods of playing sound were (1) the radio and (2) the cassette deck.
Prior to the Stone, I used a portable CD player with an audio-cable-to-cassette-tape adapter. The audio cable plugged into the Stone just fine.
I find this an interesting example. If my car had had the current-generation technology (a built-in CD player), I would have been stuck with CDs. But having past-generation technology meant that I could use the existing tape-to-CD-player compatibility shim to plug in the Stone.