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January 12th, 2005I was thinking of buying the iPod shuffle. After all, I don’t have an iPod yet, and I like the portability and price of this one. But two things are casting the shadow of a doubt over my resolve.
The first is the lack of a display. I’m trying to decide if this will synch with my rather impulsive personality. If I wanted to hear a certain song now, I’d be out of luck.
The second is the tiny, tiny warning at the bottom of Apple’s product page. After the useful note that “Music capacity is based on 4 minutes per song and 128Kbps AAC encoding,” there is this enigmatic warning: “Do not eat iPod shuffle.” Seriously! I don’t know how I feel about that, because sometimes I just need a snack, you know?
January 13th, 2005 at 12:45 am
The British site actually phrases it “Do not chew iPod shuffle”. I guess there’s a difference on the other side of the pond.
January 13th, 2005 at 6:11 am
I had a 10 gig iPod for a year or two and found that 90% of the listening I did was in pure random. It motivated me to prune my collection down to the good stuff, eliminate the junk. I’m going to buy one of these dealies the minute I’ve got fifteen sawbucks in my fist.