Nov 28 2007
iPod Shuffle joins the family
I bought my fourth iPod this week, completing the family of iPods that we have. This one is a 1GB iPod Shuffle, which joins the classic shaped, 60GB iPod with Video, 4GB iPod Nano (I bought this one for Deb), and the beautiful 8GB iPod Touch. Hopefully I can extend the family again next year if/when the iPhone becomes available here.
The shuffle is an amazingly simple mp3 player and just wonderfully designed. Everything about it is amazing – the price, the packaging, the out of box experience… it all works so well. Even the headphones that come with it sound surprisingly great with rich, deep sound that lets you appreciate the entire range.
When I connected it to iTunes for the first time, I remembered how iTunes displays the actual colour of the iPod attached in the main window:
When I pointed out how cool that was to Deb, she just shrugged her shoulders and asked what the point of that was..? I guess there’s no real reason to do it, but it just makes the whole experience that little bit better.