On: The Cassette-Tape Revolution

[toyg]

Credit cards would be nice. But you need an angle, something they'd do that you can't do with Spotify. Otherwise they'll never take off.

[perilunar → toyg]

Don't invent a new format, but create a credit card-sized adaptor for microSD — like the microSD to SD adaptors but bigger. Call it 'macroSD'. Build NFC into the adaptor.

Edit: smart cards would be ideal if they had more memory. AFAIK they only have a few MB.

[fragmede → perilunar]

Why not just use the SD card size?

[perilunar → fragmede]

Well people do. Just lacks NFC, and a bit small.

[robocat → toyg]

You can get business-card shaped CDs. Mentioned here: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card

[toyg → robocat]

But then you need a CD reader, which is kinda hard to get these days.

[robocat → toyg]

USB CD/DVD drives are cheap and available.

[foobarian → toyg]

How about never delete your stuff because contract terms changed in the backend?