Cool new shuffle is out!

Question

See http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shopipod/family/ipodshuffle?mco=MTE2NTU
4GB, multiple playlists, voiceover. Looks tiny but awesome.

Answer 1

This hurts to write but here are some quick and honest observations:
You can tell that Apple is starting to get sloppy.
If you look carefully at the last minute of the instruction film, you can see that the white balance is noticeably off, creating a pink color-cast when compared to the rest of the film.
The old shuffle was brilliant in the gym because it allowed you to easily operate the unit via the logically placed and easily accessible buttons that you always knew where to find, without even looking! because it was clipped onto the location you last put it. (Great when running!)
The new shuffle forces you to fumble after and "search" for the controls that you know dangle somewhere on the headphone-cable (hmm...was it the left side or the right? jog, jog, jog...) The control buttons are tiny and more densely placed in relation to each other, making the unit trickier operate than the old intuitive shuffle.
Because the controls are fixed onto the default Apple stock headphones (brain-dead move by the way...) you can no longer use those nice in-ear headphones that you'ld normally want to use in the gym, on the plane or other noisy environments. The only headphones you can use are Apples in-ear headphones that cost as much as the new shuffle itself i.e $ 79 which means you'll have to pay a total of $158!
Tip:
Go out and grab a couple of the old shuffles while they last because this new shuffle will probably be known as the "Windows Vista of iPod shuffles" and share the same fate as the now extinct fat nano.
Do it now!
Cheers / Badtastic
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