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From: Woody on 4 Mar 2010 18:06
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:

> Andrew Collier <spambucket(a)intensity.org.uk> wrote:
> > In article
> > <2040415775289349333.729820me18-privacy.net(a)news.individual.net>,
> > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> > > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> > > > > the iPod Touch has the button on the left - seems an odd
> > > > > inconsistency
> > > > > for a company as design-obsessed as Apple
> > > >
> > > > Probably because it's thinner, with less components, so they have
> > > > moved
> > > > things around to get it all in.
> > >
> > > I'm just surprised Jobs didn't come stomping in and insist they move
> > > some *other* things around so the externals were consistent...
> >
> > I wish he had. The other external difference between the iPhone and
> > the
> > iPod Touch - namely that the headphone socket is on the bottom - is
> > the
> > second most annoying feature of the iPod, since it means you can't
> > listen though headphones when it's charging in a dock.
>
> I knew that but hadn't thought of the effect. I often listen to music
> with my iPhone in the dock - that'd drive me mental.

I had a dock with the headphone socket coming out the bottom. Worked
fine.

> > (The most annoying feature, of course, is the lack of album shuffle.)
>
> Oh gods yes. In the vain hope that it might get into OS4 I recently sent
> Apple even more feedback on the matter. I just hope that other people
> are missing it enough to send feedback too...

Doesn't it have album shuffle then? That is something I would have never
tried, so I wouldn't know.

--
Woody

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