<tongue somewhat in cheek>
You aren't under 30, are you?
Folks under 30 are hugely comfortable with cellphones, iPhones, iPods,
etc. If a cellphone could do this without sucking batteries or
minutes of cellular air time, they'd be for it. The new breed of
devices (phones?) that default to wifi networks if available, then
switch to cellular networks if no wifi can be found,
These folks largely don't listen to radio. Wouldn't dream of it.
They discover music largely by word-of-mouth (or, text-of-twitter) or
something like that to seed their musical tastes, then they use music
discovery services (slacker, last.fm, Rhapsody, pandora) or other
format-on-the-fly mixes to extend their reach. That part is the "tune
into the cloud" part. Cloud as in Cloud computing, natch.
I find that young people are impatient when it comes to music, much
like their entertainment in general. If a radio station plays one
song they like, followed by four clunkers, they will abandon it in a
heartbeat.
Watch TV live? Pshaw. They'll TiVo a program or watch online on
their schedule, not when the network says it's on. Probably the only
exception is American Idle or something with an extreme "water cooler"
factor.
Get hep, there, daddy-o!
Richard Cuff drinking the youth serum in Allentown, PA
...I am only half kidding with this...entertainment is much more "pick
and choose" nowadays...
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:44 PM, John Figliozzi
<jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That seems to be the earth shattering conclusion this article in
"Wired"
magazine reaches. Personally, I think the comments that follow
the article
are much more illuminating about this topic. Note the references
there to
the "transistor radio".
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