Is anyone else really bummed about them discontinuing the shuffle? I run every day and am not interested AT ALL in carrying my phone to listen to music while I run. I like the size of the shuffle and the fact it easily clips to my clothing. Really frustrated.
iPod shuffle (4th generation)
All of the ones I could find on Amazon were around $80. I did find some on Facebook market and I bought one for $35. It was someone who won it as a prize and wasn't going to use it. It was unopened. You could try there. I will probably still try to find a few more. Hope you can find some for your son that way that are reasonable. Actually I hope Apple reconsiders or comes up with another product that is similar.
We are bummed as well. Our son is autistic and we have relied on the Shuffle to provide him music in a simple to use format. With autism he has the tendency to press the controls repeatedly and quickly. (Live with a child with autism and you will understand the true meaning of perseveration.). We saw no notice that Apple was going to discontinue the Shuffle. We love all of our Apple products and are sad to see the loss of this valuable tool. We found some used ones at Amazon but are not sure how long those will be available.
Possibly, we found some older iPod Shuffles we had put away, and iTunes could not or would recognize the devices. We are starting to use older iPhones for music usage by our son. Best we can do right now.
Yes I completely agree! I workout with one, and gave my old one to my 3 year old who loves a new song that I can't download onto it because we use Apple Music and it doesn't work with a shuffle. I'm not trying to con apple or reinvent a new Napster I just want to let my kid have a Taylor Swift song on her dang ipod so I can have 10 minutes of peace.
I have just been in touch with apple on line support about my iPod shuffle 2nd gen. not being recognised at all by iTunes 12. I cannot believe that they told me my Apple product wasn't supported by Apple anymore and that the only way was to use my old windows computer and download an old version of iTunes (version 9). Great!!!
Is this why I can no longer sync my music? I can play all the songs but it won't let me make any selected song choices.
Not happy about this either!
Amen! Our son loves listening to his music! Business is business but it would be nice if Apple stood by what they sell.
Shuffle Discontinued
