Even Apple probably thought that was a bad decision, since the subsequent generation returned to the usual controls. Fortunately someone RE'd the protocol and p

Even Apple probably thought that was a bad decision, since the subsequent generation returned to the usual controls. Fortunately someone RE'd the protocol and posted about it publicly: https://web.archive.org/web/20130114082119/http://david.carne.ca/shuffle_hax/shuffle_remote.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130114082119/http://david.carn... The same measurement of resistance between the innermost two contacts is now a standard for Android in-line headset controls, although Apple's implementation used 0, 4.7k, and 10k ohms instead of Android's much lower (<1k) values.