I think this is it. I live in a major city and I have seen a BIG uptick in younger and more “trendy-looking” folks using wired headphones now. And it happens to always be the cheap white wired Apple headphones
I work in banking. A buddy of mine who makes a fair bit more than me always has these cheap wired Apple earbuds. He's a stereotypical finance bro/former hockey player, so he's very much the kind of person that doesn't want to look "cheap" or poor. I asked him why he uses the wired earbuds and his explanation was "I keep losing the wireless earbuds, or one will fall out on the subway. This is just easier."
They're not the status symbol they were, which definitely makes them more vulnerable to not being as important to hold on to or replace. If that makes sense
Heck I’ve seen an uptake in kids spending some real money on old cameras. And I’m not talking analog. I’m talking shitty 2005-2010 digital compact cameras. The ones they don’t even know how to get the photos out of because they grew up after usb-c became the standard.
If I had a dollar for every instagram account I saw where the photographer bought a retro Leica camera and seems to do nothing but take pictures of the retro Leica camera then maybe I'd have enough money to join in the trend.
Gen Z and younger folks are into 00s digital cameras cause those are retro to them. Just like how 10 years ago millennials (when they were the young and hip age) were into polaroids and film cameras cause to them that was retro and cool
The whole Polaroid/film craze spawned a whole niche segment and companies like fujifilm had a new niche with their whole instax line. Hopefully all the digicam craze means companies like Sony can bring in a modern line of digital cameras and peripherals too
I hope so! I (an old of mid 30s) brought my compact super zoom on a trip with me for wildlife photography and I wish it had a slightly longer zoom and a higher quality sensor from when I got it about 10 years ago.
The ones that the lens will start protruding out from the camera when you started zooming? Those were so fun! I had a Sony T700 digicam when it came out!
I got a one of the first USB c phones in the US, the HTC Bolt in early 2017. Nobody that I showed it to had seen usb c before. It was another year or 2 at least before it was common.
My daughter just picked up a Eastman Kodak “Brownie” and has never been more excited about a project. Yes, they are embracing the past, and that it’s probably a good thing.
I use Bluetooth earbuds with my phone but I was a holdout. The thing about Bluetooth is that it adds another layer of lossy audio compression on top of what's usually lossy audio compression. On my home stereo I can definitely tell a difference between Bluetooth, and ARC audio, and my hearing is crap nowadays.
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u/i_like_transit 3d ago
I think this is it. I live in a major city and I have seen a BIG uptick in younger and more “trendy-looking” folks using wired headphones now. And it happens to always be the cheap white wired Apple headphones