Tuesday, September 9, 2008

New iPods, but no big surprises

The new Nano is taller and thinner, the new Touch is sleeker and cheaper, and Steve Jobs looked peppy, if still a bit thin. In other words, Apple's "Let's Rock" event went down pretty much as expected--and frankly, it was a bit of a letdown. Tech observers and analysts had warned that <A HREF="http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/26435">today's iPod-focused Apple event might be something of dud,</A> short of a breathtaking "One More Thing!"-type announcement. Well, this time, there was no big surprise at the end--unless you call a pair of acoustic songs by special guest Jack Johnson a big surprise.

Instead, we pretty much got what the rumor mongers said we would: A new, tall-and-thin Nano (similar to the first two Nano models), a cheaper and slightly-tweaked version of the Touch, and a new 120GB Classic. iTunes got updated--yes, with a new song recommendation feature, dubbed Genius--and a new iPhone firmware update (with a slew of fixes) is set to arrive.

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