Comments on: iPod Shuffle Summary http://tleaves.com/2005/01/11/ipod-shuffle-summary/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom Moertel http://tleaves.com/2005/01/11/ipod-shuffle-summary/comment-page-1/#comment-841 Tom Moertel Wed, 12 Jan 2005 06:01:23 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=281#comment-841 I think what Apple meant is that with 240 songs, playing them a million different ways takes about 2,200 years, and even granting a couple of millennia to account for Futurama-style life prolongation, that's more than most customers are likely to get out of the device before they kick the oxygen habit. So the "million different ways" is really a nod of recognition toward human fragility. At least that's the way I figure it. :) I think what Apple meant is that with 240 songs, playing them a million different ways takes about 2,200 years, and even granting a couple of millennia to account for Futurama-style life prolongation, that’s more than most customers are likely to get out of the device before they kick the oxygen habit. So the “million different ways” is really a nod of recognition toward human fragility.

At least that’s the way I figure it. :)

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