Apple Announces New iPod shuffle

It's implied from the tour. I mean, if you don't use their headphone, you cannot control anything on it. I have their in-ear headphone and it sounds great so it's not a bad thing.

Re: Apple Announces New iPod shuffle

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Post by there » Wed, Mar 11, 2009, 3:40 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #3

yef wrote: post #2

So you have to use their earbuds? Hrm.

Where do you see that?

they moved the play controls to the headphone cable and removed them from the ipod itself. if you don't use their crappy earbuds, you have no way of skipping songs or pausing.

Re: Apple Announces New iPod shuffle

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Post by TweedHeads » Wed, Mar 11, 2009, 3:47 PM UTC

Innovation at Apple never ends. Bravo!

Re: Apple Announces New iPod shuffle

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Post by gamache » Wed, Mar 11, 2009, 3:50 PM UTC

Apple Announces Incredible New iPod shuffle

iPod shuffle is based on Apple’s incredibly popular shuffle feature

Pod shuffle is the smallest music player in the world and is incredibly easy to clip to almost anything

This all sounds pretty credible to me. Basically, now it can use playlists and it can use text-to-speech to tell you what song is playing.

Re: Apple Announces New iPod shuffle

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Post by mdasen » Wed, Mar 11, 2009, 3:51 PM UTC

melvinram wrote: post #4

tptacek wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where do you see that?

It's implied from the tour. I mean, if you don't use their headphone, you cannot control anything on it. I have their in-ear headphone and it sounds great so it's not a bad thing.

Except if you want to go jogging. I agree that their headphones are great, but they don't attach securely enough for a good workout.

Re: Apple Announces New iPod shuffle

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Post by brk » Wed, Mar 11, 2009, 3:54 PM UTC

yef wrote: post #2

So you have to use their earbuds? Hrm.

I would guess that 80% of shuffle owners (maybe even all iPod owners) use the default earbuds.

For the ones that don't, I'd also wager that the aftermarket community will offer an in-line adapter that adds the buttons capability to any set of standard headphones/earphones.

Re: Apple Announces New iPod shuffle

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Post by yef » Wed, Mar 11, 2009, 3:55 PM UTC

mdasen wrote: post #8

melvinram wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's implied from the tour. I mean, if you don't use their headphone, you cannot control anything on it. I have their in-ear headphone and it sounds great so it's not a bad thing.

Except if you want to go jogging. I agree that their headphones are great, but they don't attach securely enough for a good workout.

Yeah. Especially when you consider that the shuffle is (was) probably the ipod best suited for workouts. Oh well, good thing my old shuffle works fine. :)