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1. Notice how he just sails over the marketshare implications and throws in the “loss of brand identity” missive as an argument?

   Actually my comment sums it up very well. This is a different Apple: bold and daring.

   All I need now is a blog ;-)

   by Sunny on January 17 2005, 4:39 am   #

2. I want to set up something like Waferbaby at some point, with user pages and things of that sort. One day.

   I disagree with him on the brand identity point. I think people think of the iPod as a stylish MP3 player. I think the three things he list as being important elements of an iPod are really secondary to it being chic and stylish. They may very well be the reasons the iPod is stylish, but the fact that it is stylish is what is important. I don’t think most people who want an iPod want one for the hard drive space, the scroll wheel, or the screen.

   The reason Apple can sell iPod socks for 30 dollars is because the iPod is cool—though I have read plenty of people discussing at great length how the iPod socks are brilliant. (People will really eat up anything Apple spits out—I digress.) My point is simply that the iShuffle continues the tradition of iPods being stylish MP3 players. I think people are going to continue to think of the iPod as the MP3 player to get for quite some time.

   by ramanan on January 17 2005, 12:31 pm   #

3. I couldn’t agree more. The idea behind this is beautiful. It fills a gap.

   To many people the display is secondary. I mean yeah that’s cool but not absolutely necessary.

   Size does matter. The smaller the better.

   I love the minimalism. It does one thing, and does it very well. No superfluous controls, features. Just a superb device.

   And more importantly for me, its exactly the way I listen to music: select tracks every couple of weeks, throw it into a playlist, listen in shuffle mode in Winamp. (BTW I will be missing this Winamp experience once I move onto OSX). The Shuffle is perfect for me.

   And the USB stick is worth every bit as well. I can then dump my rarely used USB floppy drive. (Long live sneakernet).

   Yeah, Apple fan boys exist but this is very attractive product at an excellent price-point.

   by Sunny on January 17 2005, 9:10 pm   #

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