If they bring this technology to other devices, God knows owning an iPod will become more expensive. Seeing on my end how easily those headphones short circuit at the pushhbutton unit causing them to malfuction on my iPhone, this should be something Apple users should be concerned with. To make them work, iLounge says a $20-30 to-be-manufactured adapter is needed, or approved headphones, which so far are no cheaper than $49. That means no volume, no voiceover, and no navigation. Obviously they wouldn’t, since all the navigation is done via the iPhone-like pushbutton device on the right earbud wire.īut if third-party headphones add playback controls but don’t have this chip, they won’t work either.
ILounge claims that the headphones add some type of “authentication chip,” which means that standard headphones will not work with the device. Amid giving the Shuffle its first-ever “no” recommendation for an iPod/iPhone product, Apple enthusiast site iLounge also dropped a bombshell: Shuffle headphones are essentially DRM protected. Well, that concept may be coming to Shuffle headphones as well. The “Apple tax” has been somewhat of a tongue-in-cheek joke in the tech world for a long time: where the consumer pays a higher price for a product simply because it bears the Apple logo. Please reference this new post from Harry.) ( This post was written with the information Technologizer had at the time.
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