Double Music Lets Teens Ignore Each Other, Even While They Share A Pair Of Earbuds

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There isn’t a much sadder sight in the modern urban landscape than a pair of friends walking together, both isolated by their own music playing on their own headphones. Why even bother meeting your friend i all you’re going to do is ignore each other?

Now, it gets a little better – and quite a lot cuter – when those friends share one pair of earbuds, maybe to listen to the same piece of music.

And then Double Music comes along and ruins everything again. Double Music is an app that will play a different track into each bud, severing the couple’s connection even as they’re physically joined by white wires.

The app shows two audio players on the same screen, so at leas the two people involved have to have some kind of interaction beyond pushing the other person’s wax-encrusted headphone into their ear. Each has it’s own controls and track selector. And that’s about it really – I just wonder what artwork appears on the lock screen during playback?

I really can’t see the point of this app at all. It’s not like every kid doesn’t have their own phone these days anyway. And if the teens in my neighborhood are anything to go by, none of the cool kids uses headphones anyway (unless they’re out with their parents): they prefer to force me and the rest of the world to listen to their crappy music piped over their tinny Android cellphone’s speakers. HUMBUG.

Source: App Store

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