The new iPod shuffle, explained.
By Nilay Patel 
posted March 11th 2009 5:22PM
posted March 11th 2009 5:22PM
posted March 11th 2009 5:22PM
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I can barely remember all the crazy button combos for my Jawbone II, which has two stealthy buttons that you have to know where they are. I think the next Shuffle will have multi-touch commanding:
Grab your balls to play
Fart to pause
Pick your nose to skip track
Etc.
I ready for this. Years of rubix's cube has trained my brain for useless combinations. Now was it 6 or 15 clicks to break the headphones?
This reminds me of that parody apple laptop with the click wheel keyboard that the Onion did a spoof on. I can't believe apple went to such a cumbersome control system.
- I have 2 ipods (u2 ipod, 5th gen ipod)
- I stood in line like a tard for 4 hours for the 3g.
I like apple but seriously? wtf? this is like finding out your sports car has been replaced with a pinto..
This is definitely going to be a love/hate product, just like everything else apple sells. The voice over program is very nice I think and judging by the guided tour I saw on apple.com, it's very responsive.
I think the BIGGEST downfall of all to this product is the headphones, I know alot of people are complaining about them blah blah but it's a very logical complaint.
On Entertainment weekly.com (http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/03/new-ipod-shuffl.html) Someone made a statement saying they felt like they had to marry the headphones, because of the controls being on them. It is going to suck because if those headphones do break you would HAVE to get replacements from apple, plus the fact that alot of people just don't like how the headphones feel in their ears.
After all is said and done, it's not a bad ipod, although I still prefer the 2nd generation.
Like I said, just another love/hate product from apple.
3.5 out of 5 stars.
Rediculous. If it needs to be small for design reasons, put the display on the headphones. Or, just put a damn display on the thing. OLED? cheap for something that small.
This all seems very redundant, and I know people that would actually buy this.
Next stop: iCord. A sleek, Apple-white cord that conveniently holds your music, and doubles as shitty earbuds to boot!
I'm suprised at how shit this new apple product really is.
I think Apple forgot the only people in the market for a shuffle are looking for SIMPLICITY.
Imagine an mp3 player with a combination lock style control interface, where a diff combo needs to be entered to replace button presses, that's what people are going to see when they look at those directions.
Way to take a giant leap backwards Apple, maybe you shouldn't let the team designing aesthetics call ALL the shots.
Maybe everyone should rate the Apple article down, so Apple notice how people feel.
Alternatively, you could just rate me down. :-(
This is how they should have done the controls:
http://www.robotification.com/component/content/article/61-controlsnewipodshuffle
It's not bad. Not everybody is going to like it though beacause it's made for a target audience. I think it does its functions well enough and I congratulate Apple for making it.
Still love this.