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Apple made the last iPod shuffle so small that it was a bad design. The super tiny design couldn't be operated easily when running and it was hard to press the
by hoodoof 11y ago
Apple made the last iPod shuffle so small that it was a bad design. The super tiny design couldn't be operated easily when running and it was hard to press the buttons. The "next track" button was moved so close to the headphone jack that my fingers couldn't actually get in there to click it (the headphone jack used to be on the other side of the device).
They trimmed a few millimeters off the edge of the device so that the clip used to clip it to your clothing could no longer be operated easily. My fingers kept slipping off the clip when trying to operate it.
The previous model iPod shuffle was, I think, one of the finest designed consumer electronics ever - it didn't need anything changed. But Apple just had to go make it smaller.
Apple seems to have come to believe that smaller is better when in fact there is an optimal size and any smaller is detrimental to usability. Apple doesn't understand the concept of "the right size", all it wants to do is stroke its own ego by making things smaller.
I miss that old iPod shuffle design. I would have kept buying them buy they are no longer available, and I'm not going to buy the crappy new useless super tiny design.
- ctdonath 11y agoApple briefly made a Shuffle even smaller - no on-device controls. That didn't last long, and the Shuffle returned to it's current size. (Small size remains a problem. I've lost 3 Shuffles and a Nano in my house. The Touch disappeared for 6 months too, reappearing in the bed frame.)
- hoodoof 11y agoI felt like no-one at Apple had bothered to wear a shuffle and go for a run. So much for the greatest usability team on earth.
- JohnBooty 11y agoWhat do you mean? I think the clip-on shuffle is fantastic for exercise. Edit: Thanks, I didn't realize there were multiple clip-on models
- hoodoof 11y agoI agree. Yes there were two models - one with an awesome clip that worked beautifully, the other with a reduced size clip that was a nightmare.
- stock_toaster 11y ago> Apple seems to have come to believe that smaller is better > when in fact there is an optimal size and any smaller is > detrimental to usability. Except when they made the iphone6 bigger?
- KirinDave 11y agoI think everyone saying "smaller" means thinner. This is reasonably inferred from the article text that we're all discussing.
- stock_toaster 11y agoYou might be right. There is a sibling comment that mentioned that even smaller shuffle, which I must have had in my mind when I replied to the parent.
- mikeryan 11y agoI think in the the post he's responding to "smaller" means "smaller"
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoApple seems to have come to believe that smaller is better SNL's Fred Armisen totally nailed this back in 2005. The iPod Invisa: http://vk.com/video-35284506_162126808 http://vk.com/video-35284506_162126808 Thankfully I was able to find a link. SNL is brutal about keeping their content off the Interwebs.