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tarentel • yesterday at 7:25 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I am not sure it is necessarily people growing wearier of phones. It is kind of a mix of gen z's weird nostalgia for things they never grew up with and the proliferation of AI music. I have a hard time trusting random playlists on music services because I don't know if it is genuinely new music made by real people, or ai the platform is pushing so they can make more money. Either way I don't want to be part of that. I don't personally own one of these devices but my listening habits have changed quite a bit in the last year.


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swiftcoder • yesterday at 7:30 PM

> gen z's weird nostalgia for things they never grew up

Plenty of older Gen Z grew up with iPods - the iPod touch didn't show up till they were 10 years old, and it took the smartphone another ~5 years to fully kill off that whole product category.

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brailsafe • yesterday at 7:32 PM

For me it's about intention and decoupling core entertainment from algorithmic bs.