Submission + - Why Steve Jobs Loved the iPod Shuffle (wired.com)
mirandakatz writes: Apple recently announced that it's officially discontinuing the iPod—sad news for anyone who'd prefer to not have to lug around an entire phone to listen to music. At Backchannel, Steven Levy offers a requiem for one discontinued iPod in particular: the Shuffle. The Shuffle, he writes, was unique in that it was an iPod stripped down to a single basic function—and, as Steve Jobs told Levy in 2005, it made the perfect gift for inculcating young kids in the ways of Apple. “I will go buy them one of these for 100 bucks apiece,” he told Levy, referring to why the Shuffle was an especially appropriate gift for his daughters, six and nine at the time. “They’ll probably lose them in 60 days. But they’ll get into it this way.”
