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New iPod Shuffle - Now In Pill Form!
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Holy shit.
At $80 this is almost an impulse buy, and even though I've got a 32GB iPod Touch I'm tempted to get one of these as well.
Apple released two new iPod Shuffles with an even smaller design today. The updates were predicted at the very last minute this morning.
The new 4GB devices are priced at $79 and can hold up to 1000 songs. These new iPod Shuffles adopt a more vertical shape than the previous model, but are smaller overall. The previous generation iPod shuffles remain available for purchase.
Apple also added a new "VoiceOver" feature that allows the iPod shuffle to speak your sing titles, arists and playlist names. All of the controls are located on the earphone cord.More details are available on Apple's iPod Shuffle section of their website.
More details are available on Apple's iPod Shuffle section of their website.
Article Link: Apple Releases Smaller 4GB iPod Shuffle in Black and Silver
At $80 this is almost an impulse buy, and even though I've got a 32GB iPod Touch I'm tempted to get one of these as well.
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Seriously. That pisses me off. Let me control the player while still using headphones that don't sound like ass.
If I know third party companies and their obsessiveness with accessories, I fully expect to see some sort of adapter by the end of the month.
That being said:
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Yea but then you have a dongle, which will increase headphone length, or special headphones with the controls in them, which means a new set.
I have an iPod touch, a 1GB 2nd gen shuffle, and an 80GB classic that normally sits in my car. I have $100 earbuds that I spent weeks shopping for, and I want to be able to plug them in to every device I have, and still be able to control the device.
Still, to be fair, if you hate the Apple earbuds, this probably isn't the product for you. It's all about compactness and portability. You're not gonna be walking around wearing the big astronaut headphones with this thing.
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oh man, I can see the accessory now. Astronaut headphones with a built in spot for the iPod shuffle. Either the greatest, or the worst thing ever.
Is he serious that peeved about this? I felt my neckbeard grow a tad just reading that.
I love how tiny it is. I had a 2G shuffle but the 1GB limit was a bit hard to swallow, so I ended up giving it to my sister when I got my iPod Touch with the educational deal back last June.
And the iPod Touch is nice, but the screen is getting scratched to hell (I do have a screen protector, but frankly I'm afraid to see if any of the scratches have been deep enough to penetrate it.) and it's overly large to deal with.
So it'll be nice to have something tiny that I don't have to worry about breaking or scratching easily.
Edit: Just saw on the site it's available Thursday. *twitch*
Oh well, maybe I'll wait a week or two after all. I can imagine that they'll be hard to come by at first anyway.
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If I was a sound guy, I know I'd be pissed if people were starting to prefer their audio have compression artifacts in it.
Every bit of research in sound recording done in the past century has been trying to eliminate errors, making the experience more "real". And some professor discovers people don't like realism? I can sympathize with the dismay.
That's A-Grade bullshit right there. Even if they weren't shitty, shitty quality, I can't use Apple's ear buds because they don't stay in my ear unless I really jam them in there, which is then painful.
They have in ear headphones with the inline remote that is supposed to be half decent, but that's an $80 headphone for an $80 player.
honestly, I do like the form factor, if the controls were on the device, at $100 canuckistan dollars for 4GB I'd probably buy it. i have a 2nd gen shuffle that gets probably a couple of hours a use a week for me. This would be a nice upgrade if it had controls on the player.
When it's processed and autotuned to oblivion, a few artifacts here and there add some character.
I don't understand the appeal of the shuffle over a Sansa Clip or something similar. You're paying more for... what?
yes.
This just shows, to me, that Apple is more concerned with form than function.
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Sometimes apple hits one out of the park. I love the design of the unibody macbooks(just need to drop the price). think the iMacs are beautiful computers. Love the apple keyboards.
But then they go and fuck up every so often, like the mighty mouse and the 3rd gen Shuffle. Or the Macbook Air.
And I'm an apple fan
I was excited till I heard about the inline control thing too. I have good intra-aurals and no urge to (further) damage my hearing.
I do think Apple's shitty shitty headphones are, in one way, one of their great successes. Who'd have thought that all it takes to turn regular shitty headphones into popular shitty headphones is the colour white? Not me.
As it is, the Apple headphones just don't work properly when I commute due to background noise, I need sound-excluding in-ear thingys. So this is almost, but not quite, purchasable.
Now, if Apple were to just put a 3.5 mm jack on the controls... (Either that or some home surgery?)
well what you're going to see I'm sure is a $20 dongle from apple with the controls that you can plug regular headphones into.
For the brand.
Same with any iPod (other than possibly the touch)
The brand is a major factor, yes. But the wheel on the ipod is still my favorite method of controlling a device this small, and until they screw that up, I'll be an ipod person.
Not relevant for this new shuffle though. You couldn't pay me to use the thing.
personally I find the wheel to be a hassle
to each their own, though
I guess I'll just wait until my phone contract runs out in August and pick up an iPhone.
I've only heard the AppleTalk voice once, when I set my clock to tell me what it was 10 pm, then forgot about it. I'm lying in bed reading later on and hear this sly, smooth voice go "It's ten o'clock..." It sounded like my computer was trying to seduce me.
That was a little too sleek and cool for me...
What version you using? Alex in leopard is surprisingly decent.
I really like 'Cellos' and 'Pipe Organ'. I think it's because the hint of melody and effect processing helps conceal the glitches as it pieces together syllables.
That's the thing, all the other iPods have interesting features, but the shuffle has nothing to offer. It's like buying a Ferrari branded towel. Given the form factor, they could at least make it waterproof and market it to runners or something.
Well it's tiny, clips on, is idiot-proof, resilient, has a long lasting battery, can live in my pocket and doesn't need looking at to use, and works with iTunes. Looks pretty too, even if my 'red' one is kind of pink. Also, it was fairly cheap.
That was the attraction to me.
Cheap was quite an important factor there. The new one, at £59, plus whatever raping Apple decides is appropriate for the external controls so I can use proper headphones, puts me off buying it.
I agree; I bought a shuffle last year when I started trying to run again, and it worked perfectly for that function (until I left it in my pocket and it had a wonderous adventure in the washing machine and drier).
However, I also think this is a terrible idea, at least for me - I like the ipod headphones for normal use, but for running they bounce out of my ears within 30 seconds, so I've always needed to use bigger around-ear ones for running.
To be? Lack of screen is the best thing. I love my iPod Touch because I'm afraid to take it anywhere because eventually I'm gonna drop the damn thing and it's gonna go from an iPod Touch to a iPod Shatter'd.
Not to mention I accidently carry it in the pocket with my keys way too often and that doesn't end well.
And to answer this entire page of questions, the best thing about the iPod is how fucking awesome iTunes is.
When you have some godawful sansa, or some offbrand chinese MP3 player, you don't get the ease of use that iTunes offers.
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Controls on the earbuds is kind of annoying but not the end of the world for me personally, but good god, that control scheme would drive me absolutely bonkers within minutes of trying to use the thing.
All I'm saying is that I don't see the appeal of the shuffle in the small, cheap MP3 player market. The iPod/iTunes ecosystem in general is great.
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Hahaha! Excellent :^:
I use songbird out of my seething hatred of itunes.
Also, while I'm in this thread:
I understand why its shiny and everything, but 80 dollars for a 4 gb player with one button on a proprietary cord with no screen is dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb..
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