Apple Event Post Mortem

So the ‘Pod rumors were pretty close to the mark this time around, barring the usual sprinkling of surprises from His Steveness.  Apple did indeed release the “fattie” iPod nano ‘3G and the iPhone-without-the-phone iPod touch.  Disappointingly, however, it’s a flash-only device.  Hard drives are confined to the I-didn’t-hear-any-rumors-in-advance iPod classic, a mild upgrade of the legacy iPod design with a slim new metal case, an OS refresh, and bigger drives.  This effectively splits the features I want in my next iPod across two models.  Nice try, Steve—but I’m not buying two!  I think capacity will win, this time; I’ll probably snare a classic model.

Apple also whacked two hundred Washingtons off the price of the iPhone, which I’m sure will leave Russell glad he didn’t guy one a while back, and hack off a bunch of people who did.

And, alas, no Beatles this time, though their songs and cover art made some suspicious cameo appearances in the demos.

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[Russell Lutz]

Russell is pleased.