Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc Subject: Re: Bye Bye Shuffle :-( Date: 28 Jul 2017 02:11:16 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <270720171510068374%nospam@nospam.invalid> <270720172045386347%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Trace: individual.net nN8t0RywaVRiR6OmSy6o7wRAY6QYhn8b/fgYhrCg/Nz384PKLT Cancel-Lock: sha1:VXLJdlyhtJREqJ0oqF5w3/ZWv7k= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc:2045 On 2017-07-28, nospam wrote: > In article , Jolly Roger > wrote: > >>>>> https://www.macrumors.com/2017/07/27/apple-removes-ipod-nano-ipod-shuffle/ >>>>> >>>>> Looks like Tim is pulling the plug on one of my favorite devices >>>> >>>> No, *Apple* is dropping it. Apple > Tim Cook. And there were no >>>> doubt many people actually involved in the decision to drop it. >>>> But by all means feel free to pick on one single person if it >>>> helps you feel better in some small way. >>> >>> the ipod team was disbanded a while ago. >> >> And that too was not the result of a *singular* decision of only Tim >> Cook. > > it was the result of hundreds of millions of people no longer buying > traditional ipods. Yep, and as anyone with a clue knows, it wasn't just Tim Cook sitting there saying "STOP!". Multiple people were part of the decision making process. : ) -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR