I for one am not a huge Apple fan. I work on PCs, I don't own a macbook and I certainly don't carry an iPod. However, close to about 50% of those in Vancouver here do have an iPod in one form or another. I take the skytrain to work each morning and every evening and it is quiet, everyone with stupid cables hanging from their ears and them zoning out. It is very much like that episode of STNG called "The Game" where a new addictive device comes aboard the Enterprise and gets everyone hooked in an attempt to take over the ship through some form of mind control. Everyone walks around like zombies and talking about how "The game" is just "the best".

So as many of you know Steve Jobs threw out the new revamped line of iPods with nice touch screens and even smaller form factors. I have to give Apple credit, they make me even want an iPod touch. At 8mm thick, that is damn thin! It looks very much like the iPhone and looks like it may use some similar software. It includes Google and Yahoo search along with Youtube. They also shrunk the iPod Nano to make it truly nano but with a nice wide color screen and bumped up the capacity on all of them, then turned around and slashed the price on the iPhone by $200. I just don't see how the other audio device makers are going to compete.

Anyone know what language the software for the new iPod or iPhone is written in? I wonder if we can start creating stuff for it. If that is the case, maybe I just may buy the iPod touch and write my own apps for it. Maybe something where I can download a song from iTunes wirelessly (yeah that is a revamp to their iTunes service too) and then map the bands tour locations using push pins, which when clicked, would provide Youtube videos about the band.

You never know what will be possible in the future. I just hope it doesn't lead to me being one of those drones on the skytrain. I draw the line at being added to the Apple collective. I value my individuality and distinctiveness.

Let me know if you plan on buying or upgrading to the iPod touch.

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