Opinions on new Ipod Shuffle?

Hogzy

Was considering buying an ipod shuffle for the gym!

Saw that its gone upto €75 and has 4gb of space

I think thats a stupid move by apple, most people who have shuffles have an ipod too or another media player, putting 4gb of space is stupid in my opinion as i never have more than 100 songs on it anyways! Its just to keep me going till im finished the gym, I think scrapping the 1gb model and uping the price was a very bad move on apples part!
Im not going to buy it now as i cant justify paying €75 for glorified flash drive


What do you guys think

Edit: an extra €65 will get you a nano for feck sake!

Kid Nothing

Hogzy wrote: »

Edit: an extra €65 will get you a nano for feck sake!

ye that's the key for me. I have one of the last generation ones and it's great for running/gym.

Not too impressed with the fact you're gonna have to buy some form of adaptor for 3rd party earphones either, just silly given how useless Apple's ones are!

mikemac

Not impressed.

Firstly, 75 for 4gb is the price but a large target market are gym goers and joggers.
Nobody needs that much music for exercise so it would have been better to keep a 2gb model at around 45 euro. Why did they drop it?
Possibly an ultra cheap 1gb model would sell extremly well too

Love ipods, hate ipod earphones.
Maybe 3rd party compatibable earphones will be released in the next month or two.

But if I was buying today, I'd pick up the last ipod shuffle version and I'm usually a sucker for buying the latest version of everything

cnocbui

The biggest piece of stupidity is that all the controls are on the headphone cable so that rules out 3rd party headphones/buds

flazio

Helps keep customers loyal for replacements and what not. I'd say there will probably be a product that resembles the current radio remote that instead of having an ipod docking at the end, it will have the regular headphone jack and it can be used with any headphone.

Oafley Jones

I couldn't have put it better than ilounge's editor Horwitz

Prior to his leave of absence from Apple, Steve Jobs commented that he was proud not only of the products the company has released, but also the ones that he cancelled before they saw the light of day, and damaged the company’s reputation. The third-generation iPod shuffle is one that should have stayed in Apple’s labs. It is at best a designer’s in-joke, a tip of the hat to those who once absurdly suggested that Apple would eventually release a buttonless piece of hardware, yet never actually believed it would happen. So here’s your token applause, Apple: you’ve proved that you could make a device as fit for The Onion and Saturday Night Live as for more serious media. Now could you please go back to making easy to use devices that “the rest of us” will lust after?

I bought the new remote/mic - which seems to the same as the shuffle's- for my ipod touch and can't get over how shoddy the thing is. Perhaps it's my one, but it seems to register only about 60% of the time when i'm trying to forward a track, it usually just pause/plays. Often i find myself giving up and taking out the touch an option the shuffle obviously doesn't have. I've owned all three types of inline remote for ipods and I was actually shocked at how flimsy the construction was in comparison to the other two.