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   Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:34:44 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

   Buying the littleun an ereader for Christmas and

   🦝 Whoa what happened to the good Sony ereaders? You used to be able to snag them for ten or fifteen bucks all day long, now they're like forty or fifty plus another fifteen for a new battery, what gives?

   YEARS AGO:

   🦊 Johnson, those page-turn buttons cost a dollar more than the touchscreen, get rid of them
   🐛 b-b-b-but sir, nobody will buy an ereader without buttons, there are thousands on ebay and the ones from 2007 read books just as well as the new ones
   🦊 Don't worry Johnson, give it time and the old ereaders will all get sold and people will forget

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     Dan Cassidy 🦌 (whimsy@chitter.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:34:41 JST Dan Cassidy 🦌

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     @ifixcoinops I once bought a lot of four broken XBox 360s for parts. "At least one of them will be easy to fix and then I can sell it on and make a profit and get the parts I need for free."
     They all just needed a replacement optical drive belt. Now I have six XBox 360s and some games that were stuck in the drives.

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:34:43 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     🦝 Ooh what's that on eBay, eleven broken Sony PRS-505 ereaders for fifty bucks shipped? DON'T MIND IF I DO LOL

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:34:43 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     🦝 Why simply buy a thing when for the same money you can buy eleven broken ones

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 02:06:08 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     Sony: 🦊 Johnson, the PRS-505 reads ebooks really well, what've you got cooked up for its successor
     🐛 Uh, sir... it already reads ebooks? It has nice buttons and feels great in the hands? I'm not sure we uh
     🦊 Johnson
     🦊🚬
     🦊🌬️
     🦊 Are you telling me we've made a perfectly adequate machine that does exactly the job it's intended to do, no more and no less? Are you telling me people will have no reason to buy the 600-series?
     🐛 s-sorry sir
     🦊 At least tell me the buttons wear out.
     🐛 Sir we put on two sets of page turn buttons
     🦊 Shut. It. Down.

     Meanwhile, at the Roomba factory
     🦊 Jimson, good work on the 500 series, what's next for the 600's?
     🐛 We're adding wifi, sir!
     🦊
     🦊 Jimson are you telling me that the 500 series cleans peoples' floors adequately?

     🦝 It's a little weird that "500 series got the job done just fine and turned out to be a little too resilient" happened twice