Do readers remember the Microsoft Zune? It's still available on Amazon through “third party sellers,” but one would be hard pressed to find an individual in possession of one on the subway, or while walking the streets of any major city.
Even Amazon's description of the once highly-touted device reads as dated. It stores “up to 20,000 songs,” but thanks to “Hey Google,” “Hey Siri,” and “Alexa,” most of us can listen to seemingly every song ever recorded through the purchase of the increasingly ubiquitous smart speakers that populate our apartments, houses, cars, along with the supercomputers that sit in our pockets. The Zune was a failure, as has Bing seemingly flopped. It never seems to have caught on.
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