The ipod shuffle 4th gen is a downgrade from the ipod shuffle 2nd gen because:

* Half the battery life

* It skips the last 5sec-5min of EVERY SINGLE FILE at random.

* It's not interoperable with 3rd party headphones.

* No manual control over podcast loading and ordering -  bloated software does a shitty automatic job of it instead.   It should at least employ a round robin policy instead of starting over at the A's every time you plug it in, which is virtually every day because of the shitty battery.

* Can't select a block of files at once to mark them as old, because it insists on grouping the files by the name of the podcast, which is typically 1 file per folder on the ipod for my usage patterns.  As a consequence it keeps reloading shit that I skipped before.

 * It gets into a state where you can't even load your own MP3s onto it manually as music.  Try to drag and drop an audiobook into it and get the NO symbol.   Try to restore it, in the middle of the restoration process, windows opens it up like you justp lugged in a thumb drive, causing iTunes to complain that another program is using the files and it can't complete the restoration process.   Obviously apple didn't even test their shitty product on vista.

* Still has the same crippleware bullshit of not letting you load stuff from two computers.

* Still uses the same ridiculously laggy, bloated, crippleware, proprietary bullshit called iTunes for transferring files.

 I'll never buy another apple product again, because iTunes and Ipod shuffle 4th gen are such a steaming pile of shit.

 Google's new word definition feature is a downgrade from its old word definition feature because it provides a really dumb summary written by an intern somewhere instead of the variety of good sources that it used to combine.