Now seen on Apple’s U.S. online store:
iPod shuffle 1GB.Currently Unavailable. Sold out for holiday. Expected availability mid-January.
Apple’s online UK and Japan stores also list the 1GB shuffle as “Currently Unavailable.”
Currently, the Australian Apple online store lists the 1GB shuffle as, “Estimated Ship: within 24 hours.” So, Aussies, get them while you can!
The 512MB iPod shuffle is still listed as available with shipping times of 1-2 business days, at the most, on all online Apple stores we checked.
MacDailyNews Take: Mid-January is post-Macworld Expo, so the chances of seeing iPod shuffles as they exist now probably aren’t good. Do you think, as we do, that this portends a new iPod shuffle slated for Macworld debut?
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They still have refurbs on the US store for $99 though. But yeah, just like with the iMac G4 two summers ago, the shuffle will be replaced next month quite obviously…
Maybe they’re just going to remove it from the lineup. I mean, 1/2 GB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB. That’s four players under 5 GB capacity. Or maybe Apple will rerelease it in different colors. Or maybe it will be able to fly, it’s all just speculation now.
It has been a year since introduction so a new version makes sense. I can’t imagine it getting any smaller so the capacity must get bigger and maybe a slight price drop just the keep the “competition” behind.
MW = size, as in size does matter in the MP3 market.
Apple Store Sweden has these shipping time right now:
iPod Shuffe 512Mb = 24 hrs
iPod Shuffle 1Gb = Sold out for the Holidays and we hope to have supply again later in January.
iPod nano 2Gb = 2 days
iPod nano 4Gb = 2 weeks
iPod 30 & 60 Gb = 3 days
So are there high demand or short supply of 1Gb and 4Gb flash memory?
I don’t see capacity going up since you can only “shuffle”, so maybe colors and slight price drop.
I think they should offer a low end, small storage version for something like $60 or $70…maybe not make any money on it…but easily accessable to most, and then get the entire planet into the habit of using itunes…the future hub of all legal media. Make is so easy for everyone to get in the game…then most will upgrade at some point.
I was in a big chain electronics store in Germany yesterday and noticed lots of people around the MP3 players section. No one was looking at iPods. I wondered why. I asked the clerk – no iPods available – sold out over a week ago.
Lots of sales missed I fear.
Rob Enderle …… right on the nose……again!
“no one really wants the iPod Shuffle”
http://www.technologypundits.com/index.php?article_id=235
Another holiday season and Apple reaps of the benefits, figured they would have known this was coming and kept a stockpile of all ipod though for the circumstances. But oh well. Truth be spoken, Shuffle sucks. I have no idea on the planet why someone would want a MP3 player that plays random songs over. I take my sony MD, or Ipod out for a walk or run (Sony comes for active stuff, those things can take a beating I’ll tell ya) and the urge comes to listen to “A SONG” I wanna be able to get it right away, not shuffle through my entire library to find it. But to each their own I guess, there are always freaks out there who want an iPod and will buy anything with the name on it to feel cool.
MW: shuffle (as in shuffle the deck of cards and cut an ace this time instead of a two)
Shuffle could use a solid mockup yes, but i think we have something else to look forward to outside US after the MacWorld Expo ´06. And that would be TV-shows. See, i have this theory that ABC i currently syncronizing the LOST episodes all over the world and the question is why?… I can only think of one reason. iTMS will deliver tv-shows, at least the ones running in the respective countries by January 10.2006 around 18:45 hours.
The reason behind this speculation is purely the delays between episodes of LOST, only in the US. Meaning the rest of the world will catch up!
Yes, You may call me crazy…
MacTypeDude
The iPod Shuffle is the best of its kind for working out. Its features/size and a good arm band keep the music coming and the player out of the way. For this purpose it trumps the Nano and the video iPod (hard drive based – more likely to skip). Both of these are too big/uncomfortable to carry around while you lifting weights or running.
While I’m working out or running I don’t need to stop what I’m doing so that I can find a song so shuffling is perfect.
In-defense of the shuffle, I use one exclusively for running and working out. I also have a 30g iPod to tote the entire collection around.
I have the Shuffle load from a playlist of high tempo songs. I’m not interested in finding “a song” while running, just want lots of motivational music!
The Shuffle performs very well. If you need a MP3 player which holds more than ~250 songs or you need to always find a specific song, then the Shuffle is simply not the right iPod for you. Luckily for you, Apple is glad to sell you 2 other iPods which will fit those needs well.
All this means is more sales of the 2 GB nano. I think we will see more and more iPod models sold out between now and Christmas. I predict the 4 GB nano will be next.
Perhaps a new Shuffle with the addition of a mini screen scrolling song details, lower price, and available in black?
Who said anything about stopping? Thats the joy of buttons and display screens, keep on going, change the song, and keep on goin! Everyone is different and has their own choice in what they want though. I am speaking purely from my own preferances. Everyone says size matters, which is true. Yet it only matters to a point. Once something attains a certain small size, anything beyond that is purely just for the sake of having something smaller. You could put two cigarettes beside it each and call that the size of one, then someone else markets one the size of one cigarette. Really, makes no difference, but again, purely from my own perspective and preferances. Would be a boring world if we all wanted the exact same things.
Hi-tech stuff … and you can shuffle the shuffle — according to a source in the highest levels of gov’mint. With that kind of endorsement, how could this not be anything but a hit.
I agree that the shuffle works great for active sport applications.
The one design it has that I really like is the raised volume un/down buttons,
They make it easy to feel in your pocket, and push up or down
without even looking. A great feature when riding your bike.
I have not found this easy to do with the Nano, so I still use my
shuffle a lot more than I thought I would since I got a Nano when
they came out.
Look for a new design and black options will be added.
Funny didn’t we jus tread 3 weeks ago how bad this was selling and how Apple will be dropping.
Journalist’s can say the dumbest things.
Obviously the shuffle is selling well because it’s affordable for the tween market and when they get older they upgrade to a Nano.
Apple needs to have a $99 product. Any chance they get screens and a name change? YES, it will happen
sources tell me. Very exciting even though I still want a NANO.
Exactly the point I crossed deedubya, people buy the shuffle because its what they can afford, plus it has the iPod name on it so they feel cool and “in” with the nano crowd.
Apple always does this, they use both the holiday season and “back to school” season to clear out soon to be old stock. As a matter of experience, I now always wait until after Macworld (Jan.) and the “back to school” season to buy Apple products. That’s when they’re the freshest (pun intended).
The shuffle is great for working: a good playlist of hard rock, a beer, a cigar and a table saw
just buy TWO 512GB versions for your kids/friend/sweetheart…god…come on people…problem solving skills!
MWSF…new shuffle. 1GB only. Similar form factor, but shorter. Black or white option. $99. His Steveness will spend about :60 on it and move on.
Makes sense to me, at least.
That´s not a pun, mtnmmnn.
piot said: “Rob Enderle …… right on the nose……again!
“no one really wants the iPod Shuffle””
Wonder why MDN keeps carrying that turds comments and giving him hits?