Mystery Chip in New Shuffle’s Headphones Causes Concern

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The Shuffle is basically the only Apple product I will buy, because it fills one very specific need very well (a MP3 player that won't die at the first sign of moisture)
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I got a refurb 3G 8GB Nano when the new 4G came out, for cheap ($99). I bought a small hardshell case with a rubber wheel cover that keeps moisture out, and has a clip so I can keep it on my athletic shorts. I bought some cheap Panasonice earclip sport headphones that are highly water resistant ($15). All of this works absolutely great when working out.
 
Arcygenical said:
That's got to be great for battery life.

Fucking morons. I wish there was a better alternative to the iPod line, but alas, there really isn't... Nothing provides gapless playback to the degree I'd need.
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It probably draws next to no power.

FLECOM said:
seriously, who cares that you can only use those headphones with it? the device itself is so freaking stupid... i love my ipod (rockbox ftw) but seriously who decided an mp3 player without a display or buttons was a good idea? at that point you might as well just buy a sansa "click once for blah, click twice for blah blah, frantically click to initate self destruct sequence"
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The old shuffle didn't have any sort of lock on it. I usually clip it to my belt when I'm at the gym, and on certain movement the buttons get pushed accidentally resulting in the song changing/my ear drums being blasted out. I'd take the new shuffle over the old, personally.
 
Also if I had to take a guess, I think the chip probably serializes the button controls to be sent down to the shuffle.
 
jcvjcvjcvjcv said:
The case with Apple isn't about making better products but having a big hard core of supports that pony up the cash regardless of what they come up with and a big marketing and legal department.
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Non-sequitor says what?
 
So, HRM then (headphone rights management). No thanks, Apple. You took what was once a good product and replaced it with a shitty boring one that's made all-the-shittier by controlling what headphones I can and cannot use with it. Way to go.
 
This iPhone was the last thing Apple I'll ever buy after reading this.

I will admit this phone is damn spiffy though.
 
I'm glad Apple did this, it will really cut down on all the Apple-crap out there. There is too much 3rd party hardware that is sub-par or just floods the gates. Hopefully this will allow them to filterout items that aren't needed. Then again, I don't really want to spent $45 for a set of headphones, but I guess you can't win them all.
 
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