Apple iPod Shuffle (third generation, 4GB, silver)

Pros: - great material for the player itself
- you get to use itunes, the strongest music service that is available world wide
- not too bad of a price

Cons: ....the earphone/remote controller

Summary: what's the point of this player?
everyone knows that the earphones provided by apple are subpar..so we all fork out extra money to buy a pair of decent ones to enjoy our music

knowing that the majority of the people already own a pair of earphones which they are accustomed to, how are they going to be using this with the new ipod?

everytime they need to skip or change the volume on the player, they need to switch the earphone?

worse off, in order to play and pause the songs, they need to be whopping out the earphones..(yeah, sure, the volume is memorized in the previous setting but whats the point..)

nice design apple, you guys never fail in that department but
seriously? the earphones...?