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Rant: iPod Shuffle

Filed in archive Apple on March 12, 2009

Rant: iPod Shuffle



Okay. So this isn't exactly directly digital music related but I need to let this out somewhere. Apple recently released the new, rather good looking model of the shuffle you see above. It's small, portable, and 4gb; perfect for the gym or just a casual player to drag around with you.

Or not. See, apple have decided to go just a little too far with this one, removing all control of skipping tracks from the player itself, and onto a remote built into special headphones. We don't like DRM, so we don't like pointless non standard devices; why could they not have just put a 3.5" port on the remote? No, you are going to have to buy an addaptor if you want to have even REMOTELY good sound quality.

Bad move, Apple.

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