Your phone has replaced almost everything sold in this 1991 Radio Shack ad

[Ryantology]

http://www.trendingbuffalo.com/life/uncl...ck-ad-now/



It's like, you know, and it's mindblowing anyway.

[Rev. Rye]

Not quite. The phone does not:

• in and of itself, contain headphones. (Though they're easy to find.)
  
• Play CDs (although it can play more music than a CD contains, even if it's not big enough for my music library.)
  
• Detect radar
  
• have a CB Radio.
  
• contain Hi-FI speakers. (And I'm sure that without a couple accessories, it won't even drive one.)
  

To be fair, I'm sure there's an app for the third and fourth items.

[max-greece]

And the ad doesn't include a whole host of other functions of your smartphone (GPS, email, Text messages, language translation tool, encyclopaedia, video game console, video player......)

[Ryantology]

Not quite. The phone does not:

• in and of itself, contain headphones. (Though they're easy to find.)
  
• Play CDs (although it can play more music than a CD contains, even if it's not big enough for my music library.)
  
• Detect radar
  
• have a CB Radio.
  
• contain Hi-FI speakers. (And I'm sure that without a couple accessories, it won't even drive one.)
  

To be fair, I'm sure there's an app for the third and fourth items.

I would argue that, in the case of the first item, every phone I've ever purchased included headphones as a basic accessory (which was not the case with that portable CD player, I might add).

In the case of the second, if one says that the main point of a CD player is to play music, well, phones may very well be the biggest reason why reason portable CD players are obsolete. Heck, standalone MP3 players are being rendered obsolete by phones.

There are Android apps that functionally emulate the functions of both CBs and radar detectors.

That just leaves the speakers, which accounts for the 'almost'.

[ShaMan]

http://www.trendingbuffalo.com/life/uncl...ck-ad-now/



It's like, you know, and it's mindblowing anyway.

I owned those 3-way, 15" woofer towers. Sounded like shit compared to my compact amp/speakers for my MP3. "Optimus Mach Two"®

[Cato]

1971, when Radio Shack was about radios.

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

The Radio Shack ad doesn't have an infinite supply of porn for sale either.

[Rev. Rye]

In the case of the second, if one says that the main point of a CD player is to play music, well, phones may very well be the biggest reason why reason portable CD players are obsolete. Heck, standalone MP3 players are being rendered obsolete by phones.

Of course, the major reason it took so long for me to break down and get an MP3 player is because even the biggest MP3 player or phone doesn't have enough space for my music collection. Yes, even the 160 gig iPod.

[Minimalist]

Fuck. I remember buying cassette tapes from Radio Shack....

[Ryantology]

In the case of the second, if one says that the main point of a CD player is to play music, well, phones may very well be the biggest reason why reason portable CD players are obsolete. Heck, standalone MP3 players are being rendered obsolete by phones.

Of course, the major reason it took so long for me to break down and get an MP3 player is because even the biggest MP3 player or phone doesn't have enough space for my music collection. Yes, even the 160 gig iPod.

I have the same problem. I dedicate a large part of a TB external hard drive to music. Since I have an iPod and it's only 80GB, I simply have to be choosy with what I want on it.