They have removed the pesky features such as screen and controls that have tortured owners of other devices.

Now the device is pure.

Apple will now levy a fair surcharge for their services, quadrupling the price of this POS.

Why have buttons?

Apple knows what you should listen to...

Who would buy this piece of shit? Maybe if it were $20-$30 or something, but that price?! I've seen cheap $10 Chinese knock-offs with better features. Just get an older generation Nano and have superior everything on it.

Given that plugging it into a Leopard box gives different voices than Tiger or PC, I'm pretty sure it renders all the voice stuff in iTunes and copies it over alongside the music, playlists, etc.

So... Will you be able to choose Zarvox?

Here's another catch. I drive an old car with a stereo with only a cassette player. I have an iPod cassette adaptor for my old Shuffle.

If I wanted to upgrade I would have to plug in the headphones just to control it. I know time and tech marches on...but I won't be until I can afford a new car...and in this economic environment....PLEASE!

Nope, you can use a different 4 gig mp3 player for half the price.

Give it a week or three, and world+dog will have made little adaptors to let you plug your proper headphones in and still control the creepy computer voice (yaaaay for creepy computer voice).

..assuming one is needed, and the earbuds don't plug into the top of the remove bit, like the first gen iPods..

...that you have to use Apple's crap earbuds?