new iPods and Movies

As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, at the ‘special event’ yesterday, Apple did not introduce anything that would make me cancel my iMac order (thanks for that.. now, ship it so I can play with it this weekend would you?). Instead, Apple chose to update the iPod family.

Nano’s now look like the Minis they replaced.. including available in colors. Shuffle is now super small.. fortunately it remains priced at $79.00 so everyone who loses theirs can easily replace it (wait.. that would be personal responsibility, which apparently doesn’t exist..so I’m sure we’ll see someone who lost theirs sue Apple for making it too small).

The “regular” iPods got sharper screens, brighter screens.

of course the Movie store was announced.. 75 movies as of yesterday, with more being added weekly. The iTunes Music Store is now simply the iTunes Store. Videos from the iTunes store are now available in a higher resolution.

New version of iTunes with a very cool new way of browsing you music like a jukebox, it’ll flip through your cover art….which iTunes nicely offers to go get for you if you’re missing some (this part apparently, still needs some work.. since I’ve told it a few times to go get Cover Art, and its not finding some)

New Games for the iPod, and cashing in on the selling games thing like cell phone companies do, Apple has made the games available to purchase for $4.99 for both the “older” 5th generation iPods, as well as the new ones introduced yesterday. (Don’t tell Janice…she’ll want to buy Bejeweled)