iFixit disassembled the new iPod Shuffle.
Apple has pushed the integration to a new stage with the new iPod Shuffle. Most of the space is taken by the battery; the remaining volume is composed of a small PCB on which sits a chip integrating all features required for the iPod Shuffle to work, from the decoding CPU to the flash memory.
If one could consider that this is most likely an expensive solution, it allows Apple to offer a truly small iPod, but also to prevent easy copies of this new model by the usual Asian counterfeiting companies. If the design can be copied, one will have a hard time to find components which when associated will be able to offer the same features than the new iPod shuffle.
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