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Vinyl in the News

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Credit cards may soon be as outdated as vinyl records. (Remember those?) And this is the year that the slow, steady march to oblivion begins.

You can already use your iPhone, Droid or BlackBerry to buy a hotdog at the ballgame, buy your Starbucks latté, or give a friend a few bucks by Bumping phones. But by the end of the year you may not even think twice about reaching for your phone to pay at the register instead of fumbling for your credit card.

"Your plastic card hasn't changed since the age of the vinyl records," said Michael Abbott, CEO of Isis, a new mobile payment network. "This is the chance to bring payments forward from the plastic age and the vinyl records age to the digital age."

So "Perfect Money Forever" or "Due to Jitter your payment is Fuzzy"

Bottom line is that I'll still be using full resolution 180 gr gatefold credit cards 30 years from now and the kids will be paying for things with low res compressed money that they download from sketchy web sites.
nikturner920
cmalak
681 posts
 
If a credit card is vinyl, what is cash?

According to them, cash =
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xiekitchen
821 posts
 
(Remember those?) chuckle chuckle ... like, people don't play records anymore.. yeah well, the folks writing this article have: Ever in their life heard music reproduced with any slight resemblance to fidelity of the original event, any resemblance at all? yeah I'm chuckling at YOU with the SH*T ipod devise... I'll keep spinning my music at 33.3 rpm thank you.
... and I personally have no need for all those microwaves coursing thru my head or body modifying my DNA.
corazon
210 posts
 
abucktwoeighty

you are absolutely right. marketing has convinced people this is what they need.

Best

Dave
schipo
1,268 posts
 
maybe one day we will be able to plan a Mars mission using our phones? But until then I am perfectly alright just making a phone call and spinning vinyl. I invited a friend over {lady friend} and had her listen to some vinyl. She was amazed how good it sounded and asked why she enjoyed it so much more then her ipod and CD player. I really had no answer but to say it just sounds better.
tbg
5,263 posts
 
I must say that the salesman was flummoxed when I went in to buy a flip phone with no keyboard, games, etc. After some thought he went in back and came out with one.

We may be forced to go to smart phones as we are becoming eccentrics. I talk with a guy with an Iphone who is often disconnected by touching the front screen anywhere. Who needs that? I have friends who have sent me text messages that I never acknowledged. I have banned them and their charges on my phone. Why would I pay for messages when I can get voice mail for nothing?
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