The Most Popular, Most Quickly Adopted Gadget In History

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

CD players do so poorly because there's the technology investment trap.

If you already have lots of records and a good ... what were they ... phonograph ... to play it, you'd be reluctant to change over, if it meant having to buy all your albums again on CD.

Yeah. People gave me CDs as birthday gifts before I had a player. When I had about 5, I invested, and ran turntable, cassette deck, and CD payer in parallel.