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offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-22 04:26 [#02281296]
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what a joke, won't allow anything but the ipod headphones
to work.

Possibly the worst ipod ever.

shame as i quite like the minimalist design.


 

offline blaaard from Imatra (close to sky) (Finland) on 2009-03-22 04:31 [#02281298]
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would never get one.
yes it's a pretty good design statement, but that voice-over
and the controls thing appear a bit crappy to use imo.
the case is probably made from spare aluminium chunks off
mabook casings..?


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2009-03-22 04:33 [#02281299]
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apple are forcing you to use their own earphones now? lol

and what the hell is that voiceover shit all about? can we
not tell what music is playing just by LISTENING to it?
jesus christ i hate apple. they'd try to make blinking
easier for us if they could.


 

offline blaaard from Imatra (close to sky) (Finland) on 2009-03-22 04:39 [#02281300]
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HATE HATE H A T E


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2009-03-22 06:05 [#02281307]
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yeah, new shuffle is creativity gone the wrong way.
innovation for the sake of innovation, not for its
usefulness. but hey, apple wins some and loses some. not
every new product can be as cool as their new macbooks or
the iphone. this one goes into the tolerable crap
department. it looks good and it puts the spare aluminum
chunks to 'good' use, or rather to use.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2009-03-22 06:19 [#02281309]
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then don't buy the fucking product.


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2009-03-22 06:34 [#02281317]
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offline blaaard from Imatra (close to sky) (Finland) on 2009-03-22 06:58 [#02281325]
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one could:

-cut away the earbuds from the included Apple earphones
-solder a stereo jack to the loose ends
-et voila.


 

offline Grahf from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-22 06:59 [#02281326]
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one could:

-put the ipod shuffle on a rock
-smash it with a sledge hammer
-et voila.


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2009-03-22 07:04 [#02281328]
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lol


 

offline hexane on 2009-03-22 07:42 [#02281331]
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i like your style...brutish but effective


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-03-22 11:22 [#02281373]
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i don't understand why people are bitching about it so much.
apple make some shit stuff yeah, but if you don't like it
don't buy it. i doubt anyone here will buy one anyway,
you're hardly the core demographic.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-03-22 12:02 [#02281388]
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if you like it so much go buy one you fucking racist.


 

offline b6662966 from ? on 2009-03-22 12:57 [#02281396]
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Only a racist would think the new shuffle is anything but
rubbish.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-03-22 13:09 [#02281397]
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And I guess only black people eat fried chicken right?


 

offline b6662966 from ? on 2009-03-22 13:15 [#02281400]
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The core demographic for the new Shuffle are racists.

Black people actually do eat and love fried chicken but I
will note that never in my life have I seen a black person
consume a watermelon, tap dance or sit on a porch.


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2009-03-22 14:17 [#02281420]
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The only thing that irritates me is that the voice is
different depending on the OS synced from.


Yeah, i think it's a bit tongue in cheek of apple to do so.
Of course apple historically has put a lot of effort into
text to speech systems and has some pretty good voices built
into their os, which is a bit better than the windows
equivalent as far as i know. i'm not sure they have standard
text to speech applications in windows actually. But the way
apple presented it, like "o and if your on a windows machine
you've got this crappy text to speech voice to listen to"
followed with a big wink/smile. Again they're just poking
fun with windows. If that's a by-product of some practical
problems (like windows actually not having a built-in voice
to make use of, or making it near impossible for developers
to make use of better tts systems) i don't know.



 

offline b6662966 from ? on 2009-03-22 15:15 [#02281451]
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Get out of here Dagbit, we dont want racists like you around
here... and jewish people of course.


 

offline blaaard from Imatra (close to sky) (Finland) on 2009-03-23 02:53 [#02281480]
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OS X speech is fun


 


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