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iPod shuffle is an iPod digital audio player designed and marketed by Apple Computer. It was announced at the Macworld seminar & Expo on January 11, 2005, using the tagline "life is random." Instead of storing data on a hard disk, it was the first iPod to use flash memory (the more recent iPod nano also uses this form of memory). It weighs 22 grams (0.78 ounces).
Overview
The reverse side of an iPod shuffle.The iPod shuffle is designed to be really loaded with a option of songs and to play them in random order. It was found that owners of existing iPods had often left the music option to "shuffle", and the new iPod shuffle was a way of implementing that in a much more cost-effective fashion. It relies on the use of an "autofill" feature in iTunes, which can agree songs at random from a user's music library (or from a exact playlist) and copy as many as will fit into iPod shuffle's memory. It can hold up to 240 songs (1 Gb model, based on Apple's estimate, of four minutes per song and 128 kbit/s Aac encoding).
It lacks the trademark display, scroll wheel, playlist supervision features, games, address book, calendar, and notes ability of earlier iPods, and cannot be used with iSync. In addition, it is incapable of playing Apple Lossless and Aiff audio files, unlike other iPod models due to its lower processing power. Oddly, the iPod shuffle has a good bass sound ability than its larger iPod kin, agreeing to one review. Also, unlike every other iPod, it cannot be used with on two detach iTunes libraries.
iTunes offers some new features for iPod shuffle. One is the ability to cut the bit rate of songs to 128 kbit/s Aac. The conversion is done automatically, with the former file left untouched on the computer and the smaller (lower bit rate) file sent to the iPod shuffle. Itunes also allows an iPod shuffle playlist to be viewed and changed while the unit is not connected; the next time the unit is connected, it can then be updated with the changed playlist.
iPod shuffle with the cap removed to show the Usb connector. The cap snaps onto the unit. iPod shuffle comes with a second cap on a lanyard which a user can wear colse to their neck.The front of the iPod shuffle has buttons for Play/Pause, Next Song/Fast Forward, old Song/Fast Reverse, and up and down volume adjustment. On the reverse, it has a battery level indicator light (activated by a button) and a three-position switch to turn the unit off or set it to play music in order or shuffled. It plugs directly into a computer's Usb port (either 1.1 or 2.0), through which it also recharges its battery, which has an predicted life of colse to 12 hours between charges. The Usb plug is incommunicable under a cap. The unit also comes with a lanyard that attaches to the iPod shuffle via an attached cap and this allows the user to wear the iPod shuffle colse to his or her neck.
iPod shuffle can also be used as a Usb flash drive. Itunes allows a user to set how much of the drive will be allowed for storing files, and how much will be used for storing music.
iPod shuffle size
Accessories
iPod shuffle skin (green) by Speck ProductsBoth Apple and third-party manufacturers offer a variety of accessories for the iPod shuffle. Apple offers such things as armband attachments (so it can be worn on one's arm), a sport case that protects the iPod shuffle from the elements, and an iPod shuffle dock that allows easier connection to a computer, similar to the dock units ready for the quarterly iPod and iPod mini. Third-party manufacturers offer such things as iPod shuffle ornamental and protective sleeves, belt clips, Ac and Dc power plugs, earphones, and Fm transmitters.
Software
The main program that supports the iPod shuffle is iTunes, which is bundled with the product and can be updated from the Apple web site.
Users can download music from an online music store and use the iTunes software to upload it to the device.
Impact
The iPod shuffle was announced at the same time as the Mac mini. Like iPod shuffle, Mac mini is a scaled-down product which has been introduced at a lower price point. These two products together can be seen as a conscious attempt on the part of Apple supervision to target a lower-end store and increase visibility in the mass-market. Previously, the success of Apple's iPod and especially the iPod mini had been chipping away at the uncostly flash player market, causing flash players at the beginning of 2005 to account for less than half the store share they did in 2004. However, the former and mini iPods were high-priced and the shuffle was intended to make the iPod accessible to the mainstream audience.
By April 2005, the end of Apple's second fiscal quarter, the iPod shuffle had already proven itself to be a prosperous product for its manufacturer. Although Apple has chosen not to specify how many iPod shuffles were sold in the product's first three months of existence, analysts at Piper Jaffray estimated that 1.8 million of the 5.3 million iPods sold in the second quarter were shuffles. Npd estimates that the iPod shuffle captured 43% of the flash-based music player store in February of 2005, after only its second month of existence.By March of 2005 the iPod shuffle's store share had risen to 58%.
Chewing and eating
Due to its small size (8.38 × 2.49 × 0.84 cm or 3.3 × 0.98 × 0.33 inches), Apple's web site declared iPod shuffle "smaller than a pack of gum and much more fun," with the footnote on its American web site: "Do not eat iPod shuffle." As of the September 29, 2005, the footnote has disappeared from the American website; it remains on any international sites, however.
The Uk and Ireland site had a slightly reworded version: "Do not chew iPod shuffle," while some other versions of the site, such as the Canadian, French and German versions, made no mention of this. These warnings have since been removed.
Criticisms
Pc World was the first to description an issue with iPod shuffles inexplicably ceasing normal function, only to flash orange and green lights and come to be unmountable. However, there's not yet been lawful acknowledgement of the qoute from Apple.
"Super Shuffle"
Luxpro's "Super Shuffle".In March of 2005 at the CeBit trade show, a Taiwanese company named Luxpro released Super Shuffle , which is cosmetically strikingly similar to iPod shuffle. Luxpro also released promo shots and commercials selfsame to Apple's advertising campaign to promote their player, which includes a voice recorder and Fm tuner and is slightly thicker. agreeing to a few individual reports, Apple tried to prevent the Super Shuffle from being shown at the exhibit by forcing legal pressure on Luxpro. Since the CeBit event any media sources have claimed that the demonstration of the Super Shuffle was a publicity stunt designed by Luxpro to "leverage the media attention created by Apple to their advantage." Engadget claims that Luxpro never intended to manufacture the iPod shuffle knock-off at all, but rather hoped that the attention from the Super Shuffle and the safe bet legal challenge to it from Apple would help sell the company's electronic circuitry for digital music players. Luxpro has since replaced its webpage on the Super Shuffle with a description of a new model, called the Super Tangent which is selfsame to the Super Shuffle except for a few cosmetic changes. Still, the Super Tangent created adequate of a controversy that Cnet Asia published a shootout between the iPod shuffle and its infamous copycat cousin.
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