There's a green circuit board thingy and a battery. Oh, and a switch and a headphone jack.
How about these guys do something semi-useful and try and list the components used on the PCB? How about figuring out what kind of battery and what the interface is.
Nope, nothing useful here. Just a bunch of boys smashing a toy.
-- I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
Re:Yeppers!
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Anonymous Coward
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Nope, nothing useful here. Just a bunch of boys smashing a toy.
You're unclear on the concept of pioneering effort. Very importantly, these "boys" made a sacrifice to show the rest of us how -not- to open an iPod shuffle. Their first two actions were unnecessary and potentially permanently damaging. You don't need to pop off the switch or the control "dial". You carefully pull off the USB plug (without tearing the short ribbon cable) and then slide the innards out.
I'd say theses "boys" are iPod hacking pioneers, while critics like yourself are doing sweet shit all for the community.
Pulling tiny electronic devices apart isn't as fun
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sendai2ci
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The battery looks to be a lump of Lithium polymer, other than that, can't really tell anything else about the device. Since they have practically ruined the device, why didn't they go the whole hog and pull off the black plastic covering a few of the components on there...
Inspired Technology.
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eRondeau
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Ten years ago this would have been proof of alien visitation. Now, when 95% of the world's computers are functionally similar, only cutting-edge industrial design, packaging, and marketing will differentiate them. Like it or not, Apple is still way out front of everybody else on all counts. They will sell 20,000,000 of these this year.
Re:Inspired Technology.
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zpok
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Yup, you're right, 1) it's not a new thing, so it's not as 'cutting edge' as some people scream, and 2) its real strength indeed is in the integration with iTunes and iTMS. But I think you're wrong on some counts: 1) people won't be disappointed because these things work as advertised (they just don't make your pimples go away) 2) apple is in its own way doing truly new things, like for the first time making products in the consumer's spending sweet spots. 3) and they don't need more daring, they're plenty daring as it is right now, a new Newton would help them as much as a new Cube - which the mini isn't, I should know, I still use my cube as my primary computer. It's great but not for everyone. The mini has a much larger audience waiting.
-- I think, therefore I am...I think.
Mod up +1 insightful
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Zhe+Mappel
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Precisely right; your elegant quip really took the wind out of the previous remark.
The fact is that differentiation is measurable by much more than the criteria of design, packaging and marketing; there are objective and subjective issues.
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There's a green circuit board thingy and a battery. Oh, and a switch and a headphone jack.
How about these guys do something semi-useful and try and list the components used on the PCB? How about figuring out what kind of battery and what the interface is.
Nope, nothing useful here. Just a bunch of boys smashing a toy.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
The battery looks to be a lump of Lithium polymer, other than that, can't really tell anything else about the device. Since they have practically ruined the device, why didn't they go the whole hog and pull off the black plastic covering a few of the components on there...
Ten years ago this would have been proof of alien visitation. Now, when 95% of the world's computers are functionally similar, only cutting-edge industrial design, packaging, and marketing will differentiate them. Like it or not, Apple is still way out front of everybody else on all counts. They will sell 20,000,000 of these this year.
The fact is that differentiation is measurable by much more than the criteria of design, packaging and marketing; there are objective and subjective issues.