i know the idea of "pocket fun" with small/portable devices has existed since at least the 90s (do love my sp-202) and has really ramped up in the last 10-15 years and that you can make full songs on these devices if you really want to...
...but there is something about the video thumbnail in OP's post that's tRiGgErInG me and has begun to make me feel as if this is all just a distraction commodity at this point; something a lot of people buy to entertain themselves with but mostly keeps them from making committed music in the end. or, something non-musicians will spend money on, consume...but never produce anything. in the deeper sense. almost like creating a net negative: a creative energy that disappears into the aether dinking around instead of being channeled into greater things. and then collectively add up what's tossed into that aether versus what comes out of it. how much of this product there is, how it's being used by the consumer.
this doesn't just apply to music though and isn't an attack on anything or anyone specific, mostly an observation in patterns i've seemed to notice in the environments around me (if i felt inclined and this was the kind of messageboard for it, i could probably point out examples in other hobbies/subcultures e.g. i skateboard and see it there too)
it's like i see that video thumbnail and the colors give me fischer-price vibes and think the drawing of that high energy lookin' dork in the right corner is gonna start talking to me in some clowny ass cartoon voice and infantilize me. like i'm looking at a toy, but the point isn't even fun anymore, it's just to throw it in my face to keep me busy like the dumb child i am and then i just think stupid things like "this is why we're going backwards as a society"
i know it's all about fun sometimes, but that is no longer the fundamental reason these devices exist is how i feel.
sorry, i'm just being weird and ranting about consumption in a post-modern society more than anything
MPC 1000 w/jjOS, Elektron Octratrack, Korg EX-8000 & MS-20 Mini, Behringer Neutron, E-mu E6400 Ultra, circuit bent Roland TR 505, Mackie 1604 VLZ3, Electrix Filter Factory, delays & compressors