Derrick
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Yup it is true; Apple has put their product design facilities in overdrive. They are cracking the whip and working their design teams to the bone, faster, better, stronger! Management probably laid down some ground rules like, work till you drop, no going home early, the water cooler is for water only and not for chatting and solidifying office romances!
Cupertino, California is no longer going to be known as the home of Apple, but as the home to all who can work like donkeys and sweat like pigs, in short, it will be known as the home of excellence!
This industrial sweat shop has given rise to another marvel of mankind, an example of minimalist perfection, an object so small; yet so beautiful it will give Luke Watson a true excuse for weeping like a baby. Say hello and pay honors to the new Apple iPod Shuffle. The 404 Original Podcast at CNet.com described it as very similar to a repository. Apple themselves call it an homage to industrialization! I believe The 404 got it wrong because who would ever shove an iPod Shuffle as cool as this where the sun doesn’t shine? The small device will even talk to you using a feature they stole from guys like me, VoiceOver.
In short it tells you what is playing, by whom and probably even who killed JFK if you ask it nicely. The capacity is quite big for such a small music player, but not extraordinary if you think about how much we can cram on flash drives nowadays. Enough room for about 1000 songs. Yummy! Yes it is not as big as many of the other monster iPods out there, but honestly who has time to listen to 1000 songs before getting back to a desktop PC for a playlist refresh? Seriously!
The true magic of this little wonder is the fact that it has guaranteed the jobs of everybody at least working at Apple Online where they will be engraving these little wonders (and nearly any other Apple product you can think of) till the cows come home because, see, they allow you to now choose a free engraving (only if you buy it at Apple Online) of your choice. Some poor sods at Apple probably haven’t even been told yet why they had laser engraving kits delivered to their offices a week ago. One can just imagine the long hours with nothing but bzzzzzzzzzzzz in their ears and those anoying protective eyeware. Now if that isn’t securing jobs in tough economic times, then I don’t know what is…
For more on this product visit this page: http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
Cupertino, California is no longer going to be known as the home of Apple, but as the home to all who can work like donkeys and sweat like pigs, in short, it will be known as the home of excellence!
This industrial sweat shop has given rise to another marvel of mankind, an example of minimalist perfection, an object so small; yet so beautiful it will give Luke Watson a true excuse for weeping like a baby. Say hello and pay honors to the new Apple iPod Shuffle. The 404 Original Podcast at CNet.com described it as very similar to a repository. Apple themselves call it an homage to industrialization! I believe The 404 got it wrong because who would ever shove an iPod Shuffle as cool as this where the sun doesn’t shine? The small device will even talk to you using a feature they stole from guys like me, VoiceOver.
In short it tells you what is playing, by whom and probably even who killed JFK if you ask it nicely. The capacity is quite big for such a small music player, but not extraordinary if you think about how much we can cram on flash drives nowadays. Enough room for about 1000 songs. Yummy! Yes it is not as big as many of the other monster iPods out there, but honestly who has time to listen to 1000 songs before getting back to a desktop PC for a playlist refresh? Seriously!
The true magic of this little wonder is the fact that it has guaranteed the jobs of everybody at least working at Apple Online where they will be engraving these little wonders (and nearly any other Apple product you can think of) till the cows come home because, see, they allow you to now choose a free engraving (only if you buy it at Apple Online) of your choice. Some poor sods at Apple probably haven’t even been told yet why they had laser engraving kits delivered to their offices a week ago. One can just imagine the long hours with nothing but bzzzzzzzzzzzz in their ears and those anoying protective eyeware. Now if that isn’t securing jobs in tough economic times, then I don’t know what is…
For more on this product visit this page: http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/