Reviews for Apple iPod shuffle Dock

Mine is still in 1 peace but doesn't work
I got my ipod for at least 3 years, and the base is all rusted and oxide.
im tryin to clean it up with chimical products and by scratching it with a needle

worked a few time but now it seems that oxide doenst want to get away

i had it for about a year then it broke.

yep i know how this is, have a 3rd and 2nd gen shuffle, 3rd gens controls are on the earphones, broke those so now my 3rd gen is useless, and now my 2nd gens dock tooth snapped outside and inside, and the 3rd gens dock isnt compatable with the 2nd gen. btw the shuffles are really durable. it really makes me mad that that happend to me, because i wasnt just charging my own 2nd gen, i was charging two others from in the family. besides those downsides the shuffles are very durable, ive dropped mine many times and it still works just fine and im really happy with it, but i like where the controls are on the 1st and 2nd gen located on the ipod itself unlike on the earphones on the 3rd gen which i think is such a bad idea.

For the first few months I had the shuffle, its songs played fine on Itunes on my laptop with Vista. Then it stopped. I was ready to buy a new dock when I read these reviews. The one from KM from Raleigh dated 2/22 solved my problem. When I push down on the shuffle in the dock, Itunes plays it. Not exactly the best engineering, I guess, but it works again.

I bought the shuffle for my boyfriend for Christmas. As soon as I saw the charger/docking prong sticking up, I knew it was only a matter of time. It didn't quite seem to fit whenever we would connect it to the dock. He actually made it til June of the following year before breaking it while running errands all over the city with it in his pocket, with his phone, keys, wallet, gum, pens, you get the picture.. That being said, I notice several people who have written reviews left their chargers on the floor, near babies and dogs, etc. Like someone said earlier, if you just leave it on a flat surface, it would probably fare better. BUT it is designed to be a device with a certain degree of mobility, hence the wall charger part so... Considering it was my boyfriend's fault it broke, my gripe is: $29, SERIOUSLY!?!?!?! Fine when I bought the whole thing for $75 but the shuffle is now less than twice the dock. C'mon Apple, throw is a bone.

I cut the dock in half. It has an electronic board inside. So there is more than meets the eye. Maybe, the dock design had to fit the small design of the shuffle. To keep everything small, durability was sacrificed

I really like the shuffle but the charging station needs work. I also broke the docking/charging station within weeks of purchase. I checked the online store and found that the shuffle I bought for 79.00 dollars is now 49.00 dollars. Then I searched for a replacement docking station and found the price was 29.00. My mathmatical powers of subtaction lead me to conclude the shuffle is only worth 20.00 dollars. What's up Apple? Please fix this problem so I can be happy with my shuffle again. Aloha

Let me add my voice to those who have already said it. The docking station is easily breakable. I went on a plane with it in my shoulder bag, got there, and the prong was bent just a little. Stopped working. I took it apart, resoldered the connections, and turned it into a cable without the docking station. Works great now! Why can't Apple just make it like this in the first place? At $30 for a replacement, you almost might as well buy a second one to get the replacement...

I haven't had any problems with this and I have had it for about a year. The dock and iPod shuffle itself work great. I can see how a lot of you are angry because the thing that connects to the iPod just sticks straight out and is very thin which will eventually cause it to break. I haven't traveled with it, it just sits on my desk for when I charge it so I haven't had problems. It is very pricey though, if your charger breaks, why should you have to pay $30 for a replacement? That's almost half of what the iPod shuffle costs! The most this product should be is $15, all it is is a piece of plastic with wiring and some metal, apple should be able to produce these without charging $30 for them...

Yeah, it could be more substantial, but being as it is, I'm very careful with it. Be nice if it was made out of aluminum (cast).