Not really, Brent--there are lots of situations, say, you're hosting a party and your iPod is hooked up to external speakers. You have everything on Shuffle, when your guilty pleasure, Lionel Richie's "Hello," comes on, threatening to kill the mood and drive out a few guests. With a quick reach for the remote, the next song is on ... otherwise you'd have to run across the room to get to the docked iPod ... I mean, you could create a playlist, but sometimes you just don't. If your iPod is your usual music player for external speaker sets, then this is pretty valuable, the same way your TV or DVD--or, of course, your old stereo--remotes are. If you have your external speakers where your other entertainment items are, like most people do, then you wouldn't want a wire going from there across the coffee table to your couch while you play board games or work on your laptop, right? Wires are awful. Let's get rid of them every chance we can. until reliable Bluetooth iPod-to-speaker systems are widely available, this is a good device.
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Dave @ Dec 27th 2005 7:07PM
Not really, Brent--there are lots of situations, say, you're hosting a party and your iPod is hooked up to external speakers. You have everything on Shuffle, when your guilty pleasure, Lionel Richie's "Hello," comes on, threatening to kill the mood and drive out a few guests. With a quick reach for the remote, the next song is on ... otherwise you'd have to run across the room to get to the docked iPod ... I mean, you could create a playlist, but sometimes you just don't. If your iPod is your usual music player for external speaker sets, then this is pretty valuable, the same way your TV or DVD--or, of course, your old stereo--remotes are. If you have your external speakers where your other entertainment items are, like most people do, then you wouldn't want a wire going from there across the coffee table to your couch while you play board games or work on your laptop, right? Wires are awful. Let's get rid of them every chance we can. until reliable Bluetooth iPod-to-speaker systems are widely available, this is a good device.