iPod shuffle
I think the iPod Shuffle is a piece of junk and Job's comments, as always, when introducing it are completely risible. Complete spin that only a complete jackass would swallow whole.
This 'no screen' bullshit is hilarious. Lisa has a flash player and it can show her a small window on the list of tracks and thus is perfectly useful for locating to play that track she wants to listen to. Jobs' comments about the other players in this space are way out of line.
Also all of his players have inferior sound quality. The iPod has some redeeming features but only a moron would buy this piece of shit.
But then this opinion is written by someone who thinks that iTunes is a totally evil play to control the music retail market and the iPod is just a way to capture that market. That's why they won't let anyone else in that space or operate their players with iTunes or sell their DRM algorithm to any other retail outlet (something Microsoft has done). As a music producer, it's the most terrifying thing I've seen since Palladium. Soon enough I will be forced to deal with a monopoly distribution outlet with more power than any record company ever had. I'd sooner give everything away than deal with the Scientology of the computer world.
But their new flash player has no redeeming features. Whatever.