iPod Shuffle Summary

On January 11, 2005, in Computers, by peterb

…courtesy of Dave Rochberg:

THOSE LIARS. They say “240 songs. A million different ways.”
But they clearly mean “240 songs, 40678853636470581204935759214868853
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different ways.” Although it could be that their PRNG is entropy limited.

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1 Response » to “iPod Shuffle Summary”

  1. Tom Moertel says:
    January 12, 2005 at 1:01 am

    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. :)