Pardon me folks while I take a mintue to post a rant at Apple this morning.
What the hell were you thinking Apple??? Putting controls to the new teeny tiny shuffle on propritary earbuds? Earbuds that hurt my ears, fall out of my ears at the slightest move, have inferior sound quality, and just plain suck. You’ve got to be kidding! I have several ipods and I can’t remember the last time I used your crappy headphones with any of them. Now you’ve rolled out a product that will have half of it’s features unavailable to me if I use my regular headphones (Etymotic ER6i) Give me an effing break. I sure as hell hope you don’t intend to make this stupid moves like this on other ipod products in the future. Take a good hard look at your development process and reconnect it with the users of your products. I’m betting there are thousand and thousands of us out there that can’t stand your crappy earbuds. I’ve used macs for years and while not a rabid fanboy I do prefer most of your products. More moves like this one and I’ll start to rail loud and long against you.
