They lightly touch on services like Last.fm and Spotify here, but I really think that's where the industry is headed. Yes, people are opting in for 'all-encompassing' devices like smartphones to play their mp3s, but I think even the idea of playing mp3s stored on a device is dying out. Streaming music is where everything is headed.

JebediahJones:

By this logic PDAs are dead, calendars are dead, pocket calculators are dead, heck even phones are dead. But not really, they've all just converged into a single smarter device. We currently call it a smartphone, but to be honest a better name would be "pocket computer" or "pocket tablet." Heck, I spend a lot more time using my "phone" to read books, watch movies, listen to music and browse the web then I use it for making phone calls.


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