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I’ve resisted long enough. I’m going to post my two cents on the Apple event yesterday.

• New iPod Shuffles – Honestly, I liked the old colors better.
• iPod Nano – I like that this does video, but it just looks kinda funny (and fat) to me. Still, its nice to see it now does what I consider to be “baseline iPod” functionality.
• iPod Classic – 160GB of songs!? Woah! That fixes a problem I don’t yet have.
• iPod Touch – If I were Jobs, I would have released this next year as a replacement for the iPod Classic. Obviously, the question is “how do you replace an iconic product with something that looks drastically different?” Jobs’ answer is “you don’t, you make them both be viable products.” I’m not sure that’s the right answer, but hey, I don’t have a multi-billion dollar company to run. — Regardless, I like the product and think it looks nice.
• iPhone – I can’t talk about this. I paid $200 to be cool for 2 months?! UGH!
• Ringtones – While I personally think that ringtone ability should come with an iTunes purchase, I “get” why they want to bring in another $0.99 on it. The tool to create them looks cool, too.
• iPod WiFi – Again, very cool feature. I think it helps strengthen the iPod quite a bit. It also makes me understand why they refocused on an 8GB iPhone, dropped the price, added the iPod classic with more space and redid the whole line. This one feature really put everything else they announced in perspective for me. It makes sense now.
• Starbucks – First off, I’m a fan of Caribou Coffee. That said, when this launches near me, I can see myself visiting my local Starbucks more often. I think its BRILLIANT that your iPod will tell you what songs played and let you buy it. This should just “exist” everywhere you go! — I also thought it was lame to have the Starbucks “dude” give the run-down on their launch schedule. It really made it seem like a last minute deal that they were in no way prepared to actually make happen. Apparently, this time next year, there might be 5 Starbucks locations in my state (MN) that have this. Chances are, I don’t live or work near any of them.