Apple takes it too far on form-over-function
Today, Apple announced the new iPod Shuffle. It drops the navigation buttons in favor of making it slightly smaller.
Your first question upon hearing this was probably the same as mine: “How do you switch songs?” Simple: the controls are on the cable of the prepackaged headphones.
Do you listen to your iPod with the headphones it came with? Most people I know don’t. Admittedly, I don’t know anyone who owns an iPod Shuffle (my mom used to, but that’s it), so it’s possible that iPod Shuffle buyers often stick with the default headphones. But be warned: if you buy an iPod Shuffle, and you want to use your own headphones, get ready to not be able to switch/skip songs.
I understand choosing form over function, up to a point. But to me, this just seems ludicrous. The difference in size between this thing and the last-gen iPod Shuffle is minuscule, and the functional sacrifice immense. But maybe I just don’t get it.
Alot of bloggers aren’t too happy with the new iPad.There was 2 much hype over it and lots of blogers got disapointed.Quite frankly, I for one see some of the awesome potential uses of the device. Third-party apps for playing music, games, newspapers and magazine and FFS books, tons of neat stuff, but IMHO they just didn’t really sell it very well (aside from the books). It looks sort of unfinished