I am not sure it is necessarily people growing wearier of phones. It is kind of a mix of gen z's weird nostalgia for things they never grew up with and the proliferation of AI music. I have a hard time trusting random playlists on music services because I don't know if it is genuinely new music made by real people, or ai the platform is pushing so they can make more money. Either way I don't want to be part of that. I don't personally own one of these devices but my listening habits have changed quite a bit in the last year.

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swiftcoder 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> gen z's weird nostalgia for things they never grew up

Plenty of older Gen Z grew up with iPods - the iPod touch didn't show up till they were 10 years old, and it took the smartphone another ~5 years to fully kill off that whole product category.

	▲	ffaccount2 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>the iPod touch didn't show up till they were 10 years old, In America. My country, and 90% of the world, was noticeably behind, and "mp3 players" reigned.
	▲	sanufar 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		yeah, I grew up on my dad’s old iPod and BlackBerry up until high school; a lot of people in my peer group also were exposed to “older” tech by way of parents, siblings, etc.

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brailsafe 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For me it's about intention and decoupling core entertainment from algorithmic bs.