Comment Re:Wow (Score 4, Insightful) 224
Automatic song-end technology was came in toward the end of tape's meaningful life (so you could fast-forward without overshooting, although it wasn't perfect). Auto-reverse cassette players were the norm for a good deal longer, and not just in portable cassette players.
Cassettes were the solution to a small form factor need, which later made the portable, personal music revolution possible.
The limitations of technology gave it it's less-than ideal mechanics, but for millions of people, being able to take your music with you and listen to it in public was truly transformative.
Sure, it's an obsolete technology now, but to describe it as "the worst" is to overlook, to the point of blindness, the amazing personal and cultutral musical revolution it enabled: one which it's tech-privilleged modern-day critics seem to be ignorant of.
Of course, you'd have to be a fucking idiot to use one now.