First, it’s great to see Mr. Jobs “vertical” as he put it. Every day above ground is a good day. Next, I’m thrilled nothing came out of today’s Apple event that has me reaching for my wallet! This is the first one in a long time. Not that I’m not excited, but all the new goodies that I’m interested in are free. iTunes 9 finally gives me a method for organizing all the crap on my iPhone and iPod Touch(s). We were told it also syncs faster with all the iGadgets. I can’t tell if that’s true, but Apple certainly dolled up the old gal with new fonts, buttons, progress bars and the like. It looks especially good on my Snow Leopard-equipped MacBook Pro for some reason. Can’t quite put my finger on it just yet.
The new iPod Touch pricing is obviously designed to kill the Zune HD before it ever hits the street. If they’d put a camera in the Touch that might have been reason (excuse) enough to send me to my local Apple store but thankfully all they did was bump the flash and the processors a bit. I could use 64 gigs, but not enough to spend $400 on a third iPod Touch. I carry a 32 gig model and a 32 gig iPhone 3GS with me almost everywhere I go. I can live with splitting my media between the two a while longer.
The new Nano looks great, but I already own a Flip Mino HD and love it. Between it and my new iPhone, I’ve got video covered. I’m sure at least one of my daughters will find one under the Christmas tree though. All in all, I won’t be spending $179 on a Nano right away. That’s almost $600 I won’t be blowing (investing) on new shiny AppleToys today.
I just upgraded all my iGadgets to the new 3.1 OS along with iTunes 9 and Apple isn’t one penny richer for it. If everything Mr. Jobs said about this new software is true, I look for my iPod/iPhone experience to get even better. Never mind I’m only spending a little time and SSD space to have all this fun. With two daughters starting another college semester I didn’t need to shell out to (help capitalize) Apple. With all the stuff I’ve splurged on (purchased for purely business reasons) this year it was time for a breather.
Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 3:37PM 
Yesterday I was nearly drooling to get iTunes 9 and iPhone OS 3.1 installed on my gear. I really wanted to organize my apps in iTunes. Some weeks back I did the small hack that enables tethering on my iPhone and was almost certain the 3.1 update would squash the bug that allows the yet unprovided AT&T feature. The new iTunes function for organizing my apps only works after the 3.1 upgrade so I had to make a decision. I certainly didn’t want to lose my ability to tether, but I really needed to get my 11 pages of apps organized and the thought of doing it with the wiggly icons on my phone was just too painful to consider. So I upgraded to 3.1 and guess what? Tethering still works! This sure fooled me. I thought Apple, AT&T or both would want to get rid of the hole that allows this hack, but obviously it isn’t a big enough problem to show up on their collective radars. Yet. 