P.S. Two bonus reasons why the new iPod shuffle is very gay and totally sucks:
- You need to use Apple's crappy earphones. With the 2nd generation iPod shuffle you can use whatever headphones you want.
- The battery life of a 2nd generation iPod shuffle is greater than these new crappy iPod shuffles.
P.P.S. What are your thoughts? Drop me a comment below. Come on I know you are here. I can see you. Let me know what you think. Has the Apple Inc. Apple gone sour?
Let me just start by saying I love MOST things apple however I really do think this new shuffle is a REALLY bad idea. It just doesn’t make sense to me why apple would completely do away with the buttons and have you rely on a slow robotic voice for navigation nonetheless telling you what you already know (and they used the worst voice in cpu speech history)! I would also like to add that the previous shuffle was SMALL ENOUGH! I’m starting to think that the next iPod Shuffle is going to the size of a Micro SD card……don’t leave that one on the carpet while vacuuming…..OOPS!
So true.
i have this ipod shuffle and i think its good enough for its price and size. I have no bad thing to say and im enjoying it so far. If you think this nw shuffle sucks then go and buy the nano chromatic or touch. – Rob, just try to enjoy it and sell it after a few days if your not satisfied with it.
Good for you Lawrence.
Did you have the 2nd generation one?
You surely cannot be serious that this monstrosity is better?
If you are, don’t be surprised if you get a visit from the men in white coats any moment forcing you right into a straightjacket while whisking you off to your local looney bin.
Don’t worry, Allen – I’ve still my (“old”)ipod 5g video 60gb & it still plays fine.But yeah -this one totally blows -& as for using your favorite 3rd-party headphones with it -well just forget it! I use a nice pair on in-ear sonys with my ipod cuz the original ones suck -they’re uncomfortable & sound tinny -no bass -which is the same reason ppl will be pi$$ed when the use this new shuffle!
I totally concur.
Currently enjoying listening to my cool music on my 2nd generation shuffle right now.
Enjoying my super comfortable kind of expensive headphones right now and also appreciating their deep bass sounds.
I do agree with him 3rd Gen Shuffle totally sucks!
Aggh and what about all those people that have small ear drums that can’t fit those type of headphones in their ears? I have to wear the ones that go over your head, because the ear buds always fall out.
I love the second generation, but the third one rules me out.
I lost my new shuffle a couple of months ago and never missed it. I’m back to the old one.
My complaint is with the buttons. With the old shuffle, I can find them without having to feel my way up and down the earphone cord.
The voice feature? It’s rather useful to be able to create separate playlists, but saying out the song titles is totally redundant.
I have the second generation shuffle(this is my second one because I gave a friend who doesn’t have a pot to piss in my old one and then bought another one), 80Gb ipod classic, had a 20 Gb ipod photo, macmini, had a mirrored doors G4 tower-(I am an Apple fanboy), and I REALLY don’t like this new shuffle. It makes no sense. Usually Apple has really good ideas, but this is a really really really bad idea. Hopefully this ipod will go away when they upgrade the size of the nano and the touch.
I completely agree with this post. I think each revision of the Shuffle was worse than the previous. In my opinion, the first gen Shuffle is one of Apple’s best designed products. It has a built-in USB plug so you don’t need to carry around a dock, and the stick shape was easy to orient in your hand so you could tell what direction the buttons were without looking. Plus it had large buttons and a 30+ hour battery. The 2nd gen got rid of the USB and long shape but was still a respectable device. The 3rd gen is just plain dumb with controls in the cord and a required set of headphones.
I just bought this new iPod Shuffle and I think it sucks so bad. I was planning on giving it away as a gift but I will not because it sucks. No kidding, I should of better bought some random MP3 player instead.
I just bought the new shuffle, Its not so bad. I think its very useful for being so compacted. Its easy to run with and you don’t have one of those straps on your arms. Then again I have heard about the battery and I hope that mine will last until I buy the next new ipod that comes out
For me the complete failure of this 3rd gen. ipod is the headphone controls being located somewhere up around my head so that i have to grope around for it pulling the earbud phone out making me angry. And I used to like using different headphones….sorry son…..you cant do that now….SUCKS!