Barbara and Jenna Bush

[7] [8]. [6] Still, the Super Tangent invoked enough of a controversy that CNET Asia published a shootout between the iPod shuffle and its infamous copycat cousin. For the underage drinking charge, Jenna was fined $500 and her driver's license was suspended for 30 days. Luxpro has since replaced its webpage on the Super Shuffle with a description of a new model, called the Super Tangent which is identical to the Super Shuffle except for a few cosmetic changes. On July 6, 2001, for the false identification charge, Jenna was ordered to pay $100, perform 36 hours of community service, and attend a session where victims of alcohol-related crimes speak. Since the CeBIT event several media sources have claimed that the demonstration of the Super Shuffle was a publicity stunt designed by Luxpro to "leverage the media attention created by Apple to their advantage." [5] Engadget claims that Luxpro never intended to manufacture the iPod shuffle knock-off at all, but rather hoped that the attention from the Super Shuffle and the inevitable legal challenge to it from Apple would help sell the company's electronic circuitry for digital music players. They both pleaded no contest to all charges. According to a few individual reports, Apple tried to prevent the Super Shuffle from being shown at the exhibit by forcing legal pressure on Luxpro.

At the same incident, Barbara Bush was charged with being a minor in possession of alcohol. Luxpro also released promo shots and commercials identical to Apple's advertising campaign to promote their player, which includes a voice recorder and FM tuner and is slightly thicker. On May 29, 2001 Jenna was charged with trying to use a third party's identification (fake ID with the name "Barbara Pierce," her paternal grandmother's maiden name) to purchase alcohol at Chuy's, a popular Mexican restaurant within close driving distance of the University of Texas at Austin campus. In March of 2005 at the CeBIT trade show, a Taiwanese company named Luxpro released Super Shuffle [4], which is cosmetically strikingly similar to iPod shuffle. On April 27, 2001 Jenna Bush was charged with being a minor in possession of alcohol in the East Sixth Street entertainment district of Austin. A message from Jim on the 10th of February indicates that he is continuing with the project, in an effort to increase the speed of the array using a multi-port USB expansion card rather than a hub. Both daughters had incidents involving underage drinking. His original intent was to install the Mac operating system onto the array, but the installer wouldn't allow it.

In the fall of 2004 the Kerry and Bush daughters campaigned at almost the same time at many college campuses, including Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. [3] He purchased a USB Hub and connected four iPod shuffles in a striped array for a total of 3.9Gb of storage. The media also extensively covered the campaigning of John Kerry's daughters Vanessa and Alexandra, turning the election into, at least in part, a "battle of the daughters". In February of 2005, "Jim" of Wright This Way published his iPod shuffle RAID project. "But I love my Dad and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this." While campaigning, Jenna met her current beau, Henry Hager. These warnings have recently been removed. "It's not like he [her father] called me up and asked me," she said. The UK and Ireland site had a slightly reworded version: "Do not chew iPod shuffle," while some other versions of the site, such as the Canadian, French and German versions, made no mention of this.

In the interview Jenna describes the twins' decision to accompany their father on parts of the campaign trail as their own decision. Due to its small size (8.38 × 2.49 × 0.84 cm or 3.3 × 0.98 × 0.33 inches), Apple's web site declared iPod shuffle "smaller than a pack of gum and much more fun," with the footnote on its American web site: "Do not eat iPod shuffle." As of the 29th of September, 2005, the footnote has disappeared from the American website; it remains on several international sites, however. The twins, who took turns traveling to various swing states with their father, gave a seven-page interview and photo shoot in the August 2004 edition of Vogue magazine. NPD estimates that the iPod shuffle captured 43% of the flash-based music player market in February of 2005, only its second month of existence.[2] By March of 2005 the iPod shuffle's market share had risen to 58%. Presidential election, in which the twins made several public appearances, including giving a speech to the Republican Convention on August 31. Although Apple has chosen not to specify how many iPod shuffles were sold in the product's first three months of existence, analysts at Piper Jaffray estimate that 1.8 million of the 5.3 million iPods sold in the second quarter were shuffles. This more open relationship with the media grew during the summer of 2004, prior to the 2004 U.S. By April 2005, the end of Apple's second fiscal quarter, the iPod shuffle had already proven itself to be a successful product for its manufacturer.

Both daughters graduated from college in May of 2004; the events were given heavy media coverage. However, the original and mini iPods were costly and the shuffle was intended to make the iPod accessible to the mainstream audience. . Previously, the success of Apple's iPod and especially the iPod mini had chipping away at the inexpensive Flash player market, causing Flash players at the beginning of 2005 to account for less than half the market share they did in 2004. [2][3][4][5][6]. These two products together can be seen as a conscious effort on the part of Apple management to target a lower-end market and increase visibility in the mass-market. public school." [1] Barbara is working with AIDS patients in Africa through a program sponsored by the Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine's International Pediatrics AIDS Initiative. Like iPod shuffle, Mac mini is a scaled-down product which has been introduced at a lower price point.

According to Reader's Digest, Jenna "has followed in her mother's footsteps and is teaching at a Washington, D.C. The iPod shuffle was announced at the same time as the Mac mini. Barbara, the brunette, is named after her paternal grandmother and attended her father's, grandfather's, and great-grandfather's alma mater, Yale University. Users can download music from an online music store and use the iTunes software to upload it to the device. Jenna, the blonde, is named after her maternal grandmother and attended the University of Texas at Austin. The main program that supports the Shuffle is iTunes, which is bundled with the product and can be updated from the Apple web site. They are arguably the first First Twins, as the first twin children of a sitting President. Third-party manufacturers offer such things as iPod shuffle decorative and protective sleeves, belt clips, AC and DC power plugs, earphones, and FM transmitters.

Barbara is the elder sister. Apple offers such things as armband attachments (so it can be worn on one's arm), a sport case that protects the iPod shuffle from the elements, and an iPod shuffle dock that allows easier connection to a computer, similar to the dock units available for the regular iPod and iPod mini. Bush and Laura Bush. Both Apple and third-party manufacturers offer a variety of accessories for the iPod shuffle. president George W. iTunes allows a user to set how much of the drive will be allowed for storing files, and how much will be used for storing music. Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Welch Bush (born November 25, 1981, in Dallas, Texas) are the fraternal twin daughters of U.S. iPod shuffle can also be used as a USB flash drive.

The unit also comes with a lanyard that attaches to the iPod shuffle via an attached cap and this allows the user to wear the iPod shuffle around his or her neck. The USB plug is hidden beneath a cap. It plugs directly into a computer's USB port (either 1.1 or 2.0), through which it also recharges its battery, which has an expected life of around 12 hours between charges. On the reverse, it has a battery level indicator light (activated by a button) and a three-position switch to turn the unit off or set it to play music in order or shuffled.

The front of the iPod shuffle has buttons for Play/Pause, Next Song/Fast Forward, Previous Song/Fast Reverse, and up and down volume adjustment. iTunes also allows an iPod shuffle playlist to be viewed and changed while the unit is not connected; the next time the unit is connected, it can then be updated with the changed playlist. The conversion is done automatically, with the original file left untouched on the computer and the smaller (lower bit rate) file sent to the iPod shuffle. One is the ability to reduce the bit rate of songs to 128 kbit/s AAC.

iTunes offers some new features for iPod shuffle. [1]. Oddly, the iPod shuffle has a better bass sound quality than its larger iPod kin, according to one review. In addition, it is incapable of playing Apple Lossless and AIFF audio files, unlike other iPod models.

It lacks the trademark display, scroll wheel, playlist management features, games, address book, calendar, and notes capability of earlier iPods, and cannot be used with iSync. It can hold up to 240 songs (1 GB model, based on Apple's estimate, of four minutes per song and 128 kbit/s AAC encoding). It relies on the use of an "Autofill" feature in iTunes, which can select songs at random from a user's music library (or from a specific playlist) and copy as many as will fit into iPod shuffle's memory. It was found that owners of existing iPods had often left the music selection to "shuffle", and the new iPod shuffle was a way to implementing that in a much more cost-effective fashion.

iPod shuffle is designed to be easily loaded with a selection of songs and to play them in random order. . Note:1MB = 1 million bytes, 1GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.. Two models are available:.

It weighs 0.78 ounces (22 grams). It was announced at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 11, 2005, with the tagline "Life is random." Instead of storing data on a hard disk, it was the first iPod to use flash memory (the more recent iPod nano also uses this form of memory). iPod shuffle is an iPod digital audio player designed and marketed by Apple Computer. 1 GB, for USD$ 149 (later dropped to USD 129), € 139, GBP£ 89, AUD$ 199, CAD$ 169, ¥ 14,980.

512 MB, for USD$ 99, € 99, GBP£ 69, AUD$ 149, CAD$ 129, ¥ 10,980.