Imagine if electronics companies announced an imminent launch of a new physical format that had clearly superior sound to CDs, vinyl, and all non-physical formats. Just use your imagination and pretend it's clearly less expensive and has large benefits to users.
How silly would people feel who sold their old vinyl, bought lots of CDs, then more recently bought tons of new vinyl? All their physical media would be outmoded and they'd have bought into vinyl twice then needed to switch to a new format.
I know this is hypothetical, I'm sure there'll be no further physical formats, and I know even if there was one that sounded better a lot of people would say well, I'm not getting rid of my vinyl, CDs, MP3s, WAVs, etc.
It just occurred to me that if there WERE to be some new physical format that dominated and was clearly superior, those who wanted to own all their music in that format but bought their music on vinyl twice would really be peeved!
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