iPod Shuffle question- does pairing with new computer erase ALL contents?

[IJ Reilly]

You tried. But why force the user to erase all stored music, just to connect the Shuffle to another computer? Why can't I load some songs on my Shuffle from 1 computer, then load some more (say at work)?

Sometimes I autofill. But sometimes I pick and choose songs, which I can do as long as it's only from 1 computer. I don't see a reason for the 1 computer limit, and you haven't given a good reason for it either. There's no benefit for Apple to take away this capability.

You can argue all you like that Apple should not have designed the shuffle to work this way, but they did, and it does. You might as well ask why Apple designed all iPods to not allow music to be being copied from them to a computer. How did Apple benefit by taking away this capability?

The obvious answer, is they didn't benefit. That's just how the product is designed, presumably based on how Apple thought people would want to use it.

 

[madmaxmedia]

You can argue all you like that Apple should not have designed the shuffle to work this way, but they did, and it does. You might as well ask why Apple designed all iPods to not allow music to be being copied from them to a computer. How did Apple benefit by taking away this capability?

The obvious answer, is they didn't benefit. That's just how the product is designed, presumably based on how Apple thought people would want to use it.

There is a clear benefit to Apple not allow copying from iPod to computer- it would put them in hot water with the music industry, the same industry Apple works with for the iTunes music store.

This isn't a big deal to me, my main post was about transferring non-music files and I made a side comment about the pairing thing. You posted about having explained all to me many times why Apple did this, when you you didn't. And I understand that's just how they designed it. But like I said, it's really no big deal.