Features Lost in the New iPod shuffle, nano & touch. Why a Sub-Megapixel touch Rear Camera?

Apple Announces New iPods

Apple made fairly radical changes to the iPod shuffle, iPod nano, and iPod touch. The shuffle gained back physical controls (moved to special earbuds in the previous generation) while the nano lost its clickwheel. Lost in the various commentary I read about the devices was, well, the loss of features and some oddly reduced features in the new iPods. Here’s what I noticed:

iPod shuffle: While I thought the movement of all physical controls to the shuffle’s special earbuds in the previous model was a bad idea, the ability to control aspects like audio volume from earbud controls is a good thing to have.