| Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
07:33 - Stranger than fiction, funnier than parody
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
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Mark says:
Apple just ripped off a future Onion article and implemented it in their product.
Apparently they now have an iPod without any buttons or controls.
Holds 4GB, weighs about 12 atomic masses, and speaks the song names to you. This I gotta hear. Oh, and the controls are apparently on the headphones. You triple-click to rewind a track.
This is going to take some getting used to. I hope Apple's ready for some ridicule, because whether the new shuffle is awesome or not, it's like a satirist's dream target. It isn't April 1st yet, is it?
UPDATE: Incidentally, it seems like this is a shoo-in feature to show up in other iPods eventually, once it's spent some time being the shuffle's flagship value-add; and it occurs to me that this would be invaluable in car connectivity kits. If you're an auto manufacturer that has an iPod hookup option that doesn't require you to get the full nav system and LCD, you might well want to have a button on the regular head unit assigned to trigger VoiceOver.
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Brian Tiemann
