bomb – as in little or no sales,* not* bomb as in “a good thing”
Meet the new iPod Shuffle ->
A few years ago I purchased for my wife a second generation iPod shuffle. It was a good device. I was thrilled that I did not need to use itunes with it, since I was still purchasing CDs at the time and wanted more control over the order tracks were on the shuffle. It was a good device and we both used it until the end of 2008 when we discovered the Sansa Clip.
Recently Apple came out with a new generation of the iPod Shuffle, and here is basically how my thoughts on it changed:
First I saw it – it looked rather simple and I wanted to see more pictures. I read a blog entry and then went to see more pictures.
Then it struck me – there are no buttons on this thing, I wonder how this works. From there I watched the video that Apple released on it.
After watching the video I was a little upset:
1. can you really call a device a MP3 player if you need *special* headphones to listen to it?
2. Apple tends to be a leader, so expect to see more headphones out there with their magic control device built into them … unless Apple has a patten, then just expect the “Apple knows best” fools to continue to purchase high priced monopolistic headphones.
The headphone deal is ok if you are cool with the Apple made headphones (lots of people are not, I generally am), but that eliminates my ability to plug it into my car that has a line in with a headphone jack. I cannot even hit the play button on the thing, because there is not one.
In the end, I just cannot recommend this to anyone, the options available are too limiting & the marketing is too inaccurate.
