Jeez, I go out of town and offline for three days and Steve Jobs names his new flash player after my blog... No official product info here, just random thoughts on random songs. Hang out a bit if you can momentarily quench your unslakeable thirst for the latest and newest. (If not, here's the official Apple iPod Shuffle page.)
Meanwhile, here's a hilarious Wired News story about the stampede of Mac cultists into the Apple store in SF to grab their own iPod Shuffle moments after Steve announced it... (Coincidentally or not, at the time of this announcement, I was stopping in to the Apple store in Santa Monica. I asked whether they had replacement cases for 2nd-generation iPods, they said "no, we don't even have any replacement accessories for the 3rd generation ones...")
And you knew it wouldn't take long for the real bloggers to weigh in: here's Engadget's report after joining the stampede and trying the iPod Shuffle for themselves... and Flickr's commentary on the interesting "song titles? who needs em?" feature ...
It's about the size and weight...I don't want a mini or regular iPod on my arm band when I'm exercising. It feels like a ghetto blaster!
Posted by: jeff | January 21, 2005 at 11:29 PM