New Ipods

If you missed all the news at Apple this week, they announced new iPods.  Since I just recently got a new Nano, they had to go and update them.  Now all iPods play video, the Nano is now shorter, though wider, prob so the could get a wider screen on it. They also brought out the iPodtouch, alot like the iPhone, without the “phone” part.  the Touch also has a web browser and can connect to Wi-fi, fairly cool, though it only comes in 8Gb and 16Gb, kinda a step backwards, though they are basing the memory on flash memory, much like a card you put in your camera, more curable, no moving parts to break, better battery life.  I’m sure in a year technology will catch up and we’ll have 32GB and 64GB.  the “classic” now has up to 160gb. nice.

Biggest deal about the announcement….they dropped the 4GB iPhone all together and dropped the price of the 8GB $200.  Better price point for new owners and also pissing off alot of early adopters.  Steve Jobs as in-turn gave everyone who bought them early a $100 gift card to the Apple store.  I’ll give him credit, he didn’t have to, but I think it goes a long way to show some appreciation to his customers.