{"id":459,"date":"2026-10-04T16:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2026-10-04T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:58:06","slug":"iphone-duo-virtual-walkman-duo-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"IPHONE DUO\u2019S FIRST KILLER APP IS A VIRTUAL WALKMAN! | Indie Duo-Man opens for cassettes, closes to play \u2014 real click sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s first foldable isn\u2019t even in preorder yet \u2014 and an indie already cooked a killer demo. Preorders for the <strong>iPhone Duo<\/strong> start later in October. Developer Vidit Bhargava showed off <strong>Duo-Man<\/strong>: a virtual Walkman that uses the Duo\u2019s <strong>7.6-inch<\/strong> inner and <strong>5.4-inch<\/strong> outer displays \u2014 open to pick and \u201cinsert\u201d a cassette, close to listen, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/09\/28\/the-iphone-duo-may-already-have-its-first-killer-app-a-virtual-walkman\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> reported Sept. 28, 2026 (Sarah Perez).<\/p>\n<p>He recorded real Walkman button clicks and static. The build took <strong>second place<\/strong> at the Bitrig hackathon (Bitrig = AI Swift native apps). His X post hit roughly <strong>1.8 million<\/strong> views and about <strong>10,000<\/strong> likes \u2014 and he\u2019s turning it into a real app.<\/p>\n<p>Planned features: Apple Music plus local files; Apple Pencil to \u201croll\u201d the cassette loop; Walkman-like fast-forward and rewind; Spotify maybe later. Not his first app \u2014 LookUp, Movie Buzz, and others are already on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Retro is having a moment. The Duo may ship with its first banger already queued.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/09\/28\/the-iphone-duo-may-already-have-its-first-killer-app-a-virtual-walkman\/\">TechCrunch \u2014 Sarah Perez, Sept. 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie Duo-Man opens for cassettes, closes to play \u2014 real click sounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-duo-man-walkman-1004-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}