I went to tthe Apple Japan store last week in Ginza to check on a couple things while I was in the area. I was surprised to see the lanyard headphones in stock - and angry. See, I ordered them the day the nano was released and had received my nano within a week.

When I asked the store employee why I hadn't received mine already, he explained that Apple doesn't put priority on mail orders - even when someone orders them well in advance.

I'm sorry - that is complete BS and poor customer relations. Wake up Apple!

And I still don't have my lanyard phones yet... ;-(

If anybody's having trouble finding the lanyard headphones, Circuit City stores, at least in the Portland, OR area, all have them in stock and don't seem to be flying off the shelves. My guess is nobody knows that they have them.

the Lanyard Headphone with Nano combination would be pretty much the coolest thing ever if they would just improve the sound quality of the headphones.

they need to contact Sennheiser or anyone else who could either help manufacture them or give Apple a few pointers... or whatever it will take to get it done.

I'll be sure to check my local Apple Store next to my university tomorrow and Wednesday.

I find the sound quality of the stock Apple headphones pretty okay. Mind you, I also have $300 Sennheiser headphones, and they do sound better, but can you really expect Apple to include expensive headphones like that with a $99 shuffle or $199 nano?

Not trying to defend Apple on this, but I've found the stock headphones they include to be quite okay, and you obviously won't get high end headphones included in the price with such a device. They're actually a lot better than some of the other headphones I've gotten with devices over the years.

I actually went to my local apple store, and they said they would be getting their first batch of iPod videos either next week or the week after that, and the new iMacs next week.

But who knows?

I got a custom engraving, placed my order for my iPod on 10/15/05 and it reads it will ship on or before 10/26. SUCKS!

It's cool that some people will get the new 'Pods even before Apple Stores have them.

I wish that I would have pre-ordered a ipod video, I cannot wait to have one, however I would rather purchase mine through a retail outlet.