One more thing?

After complaining about how Apple are driving the depreciation of value in their iPods by releasing too frequently, here's my commentary on their recent keynote:

• The remote control is a very good example of Jef Raskin style interface design. Well done!
• Who's going to buy music and videos when you have podcasts and movie trailers?
• Your line-up has never looked this good? What's so great about a black and a white model? Give us some decent colour - what happened to black and red?
• Amazon has had customer reviews for years - what took you so long? (To repeat that phrase used in relation to Apple's switch to the x86 architecture. Do I see a pattern of late adoptism here?)
  
• Where's the productivity?
• You didn't quote Mossberg on the scratchability of your iPods, did you?
• Well done for dropping the eMac - I believe it no longer fits in the line-up (using Jobs jargon).
• Congratulations on your taste of music - I've been following Wynton's music for years!
  

Now, I won't comment on the two major versions of iTunes within 5 weeks of each other, as the marketing strategy behind it, and the numbering scheme, seems straightforward to me.

In any case, hope you get better soon, Steve! (Healthwise, that is.)

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