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iPod Shuffle 2G Now Shipping

According to multiple sources, orders placed early for Apple's 2G iPod Shuffle are beginning to ship from factories in China. Apple announced the redesigned miniature music player on September 12th at its "It's Showtime" event, with a shipping date in October.

If a recent report from ThinkSecret holds true, Apple may be experiencing extremely high demand for the player, as reportedly Apple's retail stores have been told that shipments to them will be delayed until "mid-November" at the earliest. In addition, resellers such as Amazon are reported to have updated their shipping estimates to November 25th - December 9.

Clarification: Some readers seem to be misinterpreting our use of the term '2G'. This article concerns the second generation iPod Shuffle, which has a capacity of 1 Gigabyte (1 GB).

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69 months ago
Finally, hope mine comes soon.

Anyone else notice it is shaped exactly like the iPod remote?

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Edit: If I had read the links to this I would have found that everyone has noticed this. Oops.
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69 months ago
Yeah, I wonder how many people will confuse the two.

I don't even think I'm going to get mine until they make one that supports more than 1 playlist.
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69 months ago

Finally, hope mine comes soon.

Anyone else notice it is shaped exactly like the iPod remote?

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Yeah... see our initial report on when it got updated http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/09/20060912142937.shtml
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69 months ago

I don't even think I'm going to get mine until they make one that supports more than 1 playlist.

I think that's called an iPod nano ;)
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69 months ago
cool I have been waiting to see this in person before buying one.

Hopefully this will be a great seller for Apple !
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69 months ago
I'll consider one since it's dirt cheap. A refurbished RED Nano or 5/5.5G sounds nice too.
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69 months ago
I don't need one because my nano works great for everything I do with an iPod, but it tempts me anyway because it's so cheap and such a little marvel of engineering. IMO achieving that microscopic design is one of the coolest things apple has done in years.
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69 months ago
i checked my status online...nothing as changed, Shipping October 31, Delivered by November even though i have overnight shipping :confused:

called up apple and got the same response...
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69 months ago



According to multiple sources, orders placed early for Apple's 2G iPod Shuffle are beginning to ship from factories in China. Apple announced the redesigned miniature music player on September 12th at its "It's Showtime" event, with a shipping date in October.

If a recent report from ThinkSecret holds true, Apple may be experiencing extremely high demand for the player, as reportedly Apple's retail stores have been told that shipments to them will be delayed until "mid-November" at the earliest. In addition, resellers such as Amazon are reported to have updated their shipping estimates to November 25th - December 9.


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...only that it is a 1G shuffle, unless of course I missed something here...?
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69 months ago

...only that it is a 1G shuffle, unless of course I missed something here...?


2G = 2nd Generation... Easily confused with 2GB (gigabyte)
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