badchad said:

Look how many people are paying out the nose for the iphone?  $80/month for the ability to check myspace, facebook and play music.

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green_titan said:

Apple appears to be making their earphones and ipods work together (i.e you can control the ipod through the earphone) so you can only use an apple earphone, because other wise you can't control volume.

Very sneaky IMO.

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The third generation iPod Shuffle features a polished steel attachment clip, adopting for the first time the polished steel finishing previously found only on the larger iPods, rather than the brushed aluminum used in the second-generation iPod Shuffle. It also no longer has volume or track controls on the device itself. Instead, the included Apple earphones now include a three-button device on the right earbud cord. This adds the functions of changing between playlists, hearing the song title and artist of the track playing, as well as play/pause, track changes and volume control. It is not possible to change songs or volume with current third-party headphones, since they lack these controls. However, since the iPod shuffle begins playing music automatically when it is turned on, third-party headphones may still be used in "autoplay" mode (with no volume or playback controls). Some future third-party headphones and headphone adapters will include full support for the iPod shuffle. These headphones contain Apple authentication chip which prevent all third-party headphone without one from interacting with the iPod

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green_titan said:

Until you aren't cool unless you have an ipod... highschoolers fall for that, give ipod brand loyalty, and thus push competitors out of the business...

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Yeah, but the thing is any other mp3 player sucks compared to the ipod touch/iphone   And don't knock it till you tried it

F0SS1L said:

they're made for stupid people. Overpriced shit in brushed metal that makes people feel like "independent thinkers" because they made the alternative choice.

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