10 Facts About IPod Shuffle

IPod Shuffle is a discontinued digital audio player designed and formerly marketed by Apple Inc It was the smallest model in Apple's iPod family, and was the first iPod to use flash memory.

In 2005, peak iPod first-generation Shuffle production occurred at a hundred thousand units per day, at the Asus factory.

The iPod Shuffle series lacks a real-time clock and does not therefore update the "Last Played" value in iTunes.

The second-generation iPod Shuffle was able to act as a flash drive, just like the first-generation iPod Shuffle.

The new blue, green and pink variants of the iPod Shuffle reverted to shades that were similar to the colors that were released in January 2007.

Related searches

Third-generation iPod Shuffle featured a polished steel attachment clip, adopting for the first time the polished steel finishing previously found only on the larger iPods, rather than the brushed aluminum used in the second-generation iPod Shuffle.

However, the original and Mini iPods were expensive and the Shuffle was intended to make the iPod compete with mainstream players.

The iPod Shuffle effectively helped Apple to replace iriver as the global leader in the flash player market, just as it already had been before in the hard disk market.

The iPod Shuffle had some market challengers such as Sony's Walkman Bean early on and in later years SanDisk's Sansa Clip, though the iPod Shuffle generally sold better.

Since the IPod Shuffle has no display, the owner cannot read an error message or troubleshoot easily, requiring diagnosis by Apple service personnel.