iPod Shuffle - Smaller but with increased capacity

Good headphones are a great investment which makes me dissapointed that the shuffle has such poor headphones. I wonder if you could take the original headphones off above the inline remote and solder on a 3.5 female jack? (Using high quality solder and gold plated connections)
 
Well thats just shot themselves in the foot (i hope)

Why dont people see that other manufs are better...I love to be able to simply drag and drop my music/use it with any music sync program/keep it in mp3!

Cowon make absolutely spiffing players
 
Here we go again more propriety crap.

Now just watch sales zoom upwards as the sleepless hoard still cant be told there's more out there.

(guilty of iphone g2, ipod mini G2, ipod nano g2 and a ipod shuffle g1)

All for the pure reason they were cheap.:yumyum:
 
I'm thinking it'll be about 2 months before one of the following happens:

1). somebody brings out a 3rd party mod to let us use regular headphones

2). Apple realise this is a stupid plan and nobody is dumb enough to buy it because of the worst headphones in the history of time.
 
i was thinking about buying one of these for when i go running. But i need headphones that stick to my ears.
 
name='nathan' said:
i was thinking about buying one of these for when i go running. But i need headphones that stick to my ears.

Well that totally rules out the possibility of being an exercise affiliate. :p
 
name='Diablo' said:
Just noticed that, they've killed off their target market...:nutkick:

Not necessarily.

I bought my shuffle as I could afford it and the lack of screen didn't bother me as I don't skip any tracks. I like to let my tracks go through one-by-one and I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one.
 
In that case I suppose its OK, but I have a few friends who have shuffles (with third party headphones that don't fall out) that use them exclusively for jogging, so I guess it will put them off.
 
name='Diablo' said:
Just noticed that, they've killed off their target market...:nutkick:

U'r kidding. These will sell by the millions even if some1 slates the headphones online.

It's almost beyond the generations of players people have at home in some cases.

I know myself there's better players out there, but I'll be damned if I'm carrying a phone and a player.
 
I was just about to totally disagree, but then I realised: A lot of people buy them because they're apple and trendy, not because they're particularly functional.
 
Exactly. And in many people's cases, who don't mess about too much with the things, they plug them in, the itunes does it's thing and they can unplug it and go.

I hate the method of delivery Apple use on these things, but the average jo lap it up as it's simple for them.

U ask the same average person what they think about their Apple products, even the cheaper ones, and they'll reply they love them cos they just work.

Enthusiasts try things the average wouldn't and hence can afford to be picky - for right and wrong reasons.

It's where Apple have stolen the market in that sense. U tell the same average people that they can swap their media device/phone for something with windows on it and they'd beg u not to - normally out of fear of how their crappy works pc performs.

The average are likely to have an Apple at home computing wize too (or atleast long-to), simply cos they just work. If u don't think enthusiastly about them, they're almost idea.

(I liked windows on my previous mobiles)
 
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