Posted on 02/16/2016 1:28:44 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
1. Cable TV
Though cable providers still have plenty of subscribers — roughly 101 million Americans, in 2015, according to research firm IBISWorld — those numbers are declining.
2. Name-brand razorblades
Americans love their Gillette razorblades — so much so that the shaving giant controls nearly 70% of the nearly $13 billion shaving industry ...
3. Bottled water
Who would pay $2 for what amounts to a bottle of tap water?
4. Credit monitoring services and identity theft insurance
The year 2015 saw more than 732 data breaches as of Dec. 8, according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center — with more than 176 million records compromised at financial firms, businesses, universities and schools, government offices and medical facilities.
5. Compact discs
Compact discs have going the way of the dodo, and streaming music will keep that trend going in 2016, says Aram Sinnreich, a media professor at Rutgers University.
6. Memory sticks and thumb drives
Computer memory sticks and thumb drives are becoming obsolete as the online storage wars heat up.
7. Mini tablets
When Apple launched the iPhone 6 Plus phablet in 2014, it may have harmed the sales of another one of their product lines —
8. Paid online dating services
Love might be priceless, but the dating industry is now worth around $2.4 billion, according to IBISWorld, with revenue split between advertising and subscription services.
9. Meal replacement plans
Meal replacement plans help you lose weight by sticking to their strict calorie-controlled shakes and soups, but ...
10. Blu-ray players
Even if you have stacks of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, it probably still isn’t advisable to buy a Blu-ray or DVD player, says Benjamin Glaser, the features editor at DealNews.com
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I guess auto-correct changed 120gb to gbps, but I’m sure you knew what I meant ;)
Once I learned how to strop a razor cartridge, a cartridge now lasts until I get tired of using it. The cost is practically zero.
Teachers require students to have thumb drives to put their projects on.
Cremo shave cream. Even a dull, dirty razor glides comfortably. Can even go against the grain.
Old tech, eh?
Might want to get a bit mre than a lib arts knowledge of the tech.
I don’t buy tap water I only buy distilled water for cooking and drinking and I pay 84 cents/gallon.
When I was a lad, a cremo was we characterize today as giving someone the finger.
Great comment about dependency. Trusting that the internet will always be available is foolhardy. We kept our business doors open during Ike because we had a generator. Our files were on disks at the time and allowed us to keep on truckin. Had water, food, a land line which worked fine and our computers.
We have become a nation which is dependent on someone or something else to take care of our every need. Big mistake to put all your eggs in one basket, unless you’re only interested in making scrambled eggs.
I have not made the jump to UHD (4K) yet. I will when there is more media available on disc. I’m still buying Blu-rays, though.
I’m so so on owning CDs. When I get one, it gets ripped and at least a periodic disc burn of music, photo, and video happens. No doubt I have redundancy upon redundancy.
The only CDs I buy are offbeat soundtrack releases from outfits like buysoundtrax.com and la-la land records.
DVDs of vintage TV I tend to buy but modern era movies and TV, I don’t bother.
Actually, I buy double-edged razors. Name brand too. Using Derby’s now
Williams or Arko shave soap and a brush.
Very little cloud. I like my stuff to stay mine such as it is.
I’m an IT guy in factory with old and new equipment. The burnable CD and thumb drive are essential tools for me, especially on legacy stuff.
I have enough fun with FTP uploads of short bits of 4K.
At one time I would go up to a full minute but filesizes got prohibitive and too many failed uploads. Typically the max for a clip is 30 seconds.
Sounds a lot like my never buy list. Goes double for HP products.
I have boxes of discs from over the years and most haven’t been looked at since they were made.
Periodically I’ve been pulling some boxes in from storage to see what’s worth keeping and what’s disposable.
I’ve had a few duds. mostly Memorex that is 5 or 6 years old.
I haven’t joined the 4k club either. I’m thinking two years from now sounds right. Prices and quantity and technology will be acceptable by then.
I suspect as cord cutting grows, the cable barons will move to data packages with hard caps to replace lost income. The whole streaming model will clash with those data caps.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Because out of the 12 songs on that CD, 11 of 'em suck.
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