apple sheep will still think it's great. It's getting to minimalistic for its own good. Now we have to go out and get specific earphones for this? Sigh. Control on left side like that makes it heavy one sided. Joggers will really find this annoying when it bounces about as they use it while running.

Nope. This is a step back as far as I see it. The previous shuffle is still better. The voice still sounds robotic. It's a far cry from the awesome nike+ipod voice.