Big news this week for everyone who was waiting for Apple's latest press event regarding iPod products, namely new additions to the popular touch line-up. 

This was a pretty crappy event from what I read.

A couple of stand-out points in my mind were:

• Lack of an addition of a camera to the touch. Of course we will just have to wait until next year I suppose for that. They increased the storage size at least... Though the prices are a bit high.
• The addition of ring-tones for the iPhone to iTunes. $1.29?? For the ring-tone? Maybe I mis-interpreted this one. Because the price of a song is $1.29 as well correct? So I suppose you when you buy a song, you automatically get to activate it as a ring-tone as well right? Because if not that would be pretty stupid. It would be pretty stupid for someone to purchase the same song twice because they wanted to hear it for 30 seconds whenever they might have somebody dumber than themselves who maybe fancies a retarded conversation.
• Finally an addition of a FM radio. Only iPod I've known to date to have a built in transmitter.. only the oldest fucking technology finally available albeit on its deathbed. It's one of the reasons I hadn't owned an iPod prior to the original 2G iPhone. I just couldn't find a reason why an iPod was superior to any other DAP.

Addition of special album features are key, that shit should have been around for ages. I'm pretty sure I was pitching that idea around when I was seven years old. It's just a shame this is probably going to drive the cost of the album up which I hope I'm wrong about, as the cost got higher because sales did better and they are only helping allot more people find a reason to pirate rather than obtain legally.

I think they confidently showed a few signs boasting about the amount of songs they sell on iTunes and how many iPods they've sold. This is the part where I start to disconnect with whats going on and start wondering if this is for the fans of the products, consumers that are looking for the next big thing, or shareholders interest. They always seem to lack in how far they go with the tiniest incremental advances in their newest technology but yet have a highest percentage of all competing brands in the portable audio market.

When is this tablet thing coming?

Oh well, I don't know what else might have been important to cover that happened there. I'm sure a couple crappy bands may have dropped by and theres probably a new hip commercial.