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It's a shame you chose to ignore my point and make a response that is this dishonest.

An iPod touch is a great device for editing documents, watching videos, or even creating videos.

More dishonest than pretending that an iPod shuffle, which has no screen (and at one time no buttons!) and is functionally tethered to a real PC, is some kind of entry-level computer/grand charitable effort by Apple to make a computer "for the rest of us"? Or that an iPod Touch, which is not significantly cheaper than many laptops, can substitute as a real computer for anybody with more than the most casual, consumption-driven computer needs? Calling it a "great device" for the things you listed is very, very generous. Acting as though a $300 laptop is not also a "great device" for those things is just ridiculous.

You called the Shuffle a $50 computer. My $5 calculator has more utility as a computer than a shuffle, buddy.

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