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Apple Launches 1 GB nano, Slashes shuffle

Posted by Zonk on from the new-toys-for-you-sota-freaks dept.

minus_273 writes "Apple has has released a new nano and also slashed prices on the iPod shuffle. The lowest end iPod now goes for $69. The 1 GB shuffle is $99 and the 1 GB nano is $149." From the article: "'The price of components have come down more than 70 percent, especially flash memory for the shuffle,' he said. 'And the price of the shuffle hadn't changed, so they were making a ton of profit off the shuffle. So they're passing some of those savings on.'"

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  1. Passing on the savings to us... by G+Samsonoff · · Score: 2, Informative

    So they should. The Shuffle is a flimsy, easily damaged product (I have owned two 512 MB units). Its advertised as a unit to use when exercising, but my experience has been that it is not robust enough to be used in any situation where you and the Shuffle are in motion... Both of mine experienced a steady degradation of the rear slider switch after getting a little damp, to the point where the first one does not power on at all, and the second only works in "sequential" mode - it will no longer shuffle, and I have to cycle the switch on/off many times to get it to start playing. The only reason I persevere with it is due to its small form factor. At $99 a pop I felt ripped off, at $69 it would be border-line acceptable...

  2. Change the headline! by camt · · Score: 5, Informative

    The headline, "Apple Launches 1 GB Nano, Slashes Shuffle", makes it sound like Apple has stopped selling the Shuffle, especially considering the recent coverage of all the reasons Apple has for cancelling the Shuffle.

  3. Re:Feh by cetan · · Score: 1, Informative

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    You mean the writing and deleting every second for 70 years before seeing any degredation kind of limit?

    I don't know what you have been reading, but you will never wear out a solid state storage device. Ever.

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  4. Music players suck. by twitter · · Score: 2, Informative
    Check out GTKpod. It ships with Amorak on Mepis, so you can try it live. TuxMobil has links to all the other questions you might have.

    Getting a decent music player that does OGG and normal USB mass transfer is still not cheap or easy. The Xiph list is informative. Iriver players are one of the few ogg players widely available. They don't do USBfs out of the box, and I suspect most "works for sure" players suck that way and you won't find a good cheap player down the street in the US. This leaves you needing to copy your music to mp3 in order to enjoy any of the bazillion cheap portable music players out there but available music managers don't deal with this very well. Even then, finding a player that also works with USBfs is hit and miss.

    PDA's running Familiar, OZ or whathave you may provide a better route to music than music players do.

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