That was the theme of today's Apple press conference. Apple released a slew of iPods, updated iTunes, and started selling full length movies. The Shuffle was completely redesigned with an aluminum casing and with 1 GB for $79. The Nano saw the most changes, first in the form factor, now it comes in an aluminum casing like the old Mini and in multiple colors. Starting off at $149 the Nano is 2GB and only available in silver, next you have the 4GB version available in silver, green, blue, and pink for $199 and lastly the 8GB version available in only black. The full size iPod comes in the white or black 30GB $249 and 80GB for $349. Apples music player iTunes was updated to version 7 and now has a friendlier way of finding your movies, music, and podcasts. Also it now offers CD cover pictures for your tracks when you encode your music, which is something that most people I know complained about. Today marks the start of feature length movies being available on iTunes. The movies currently are only available from Disney and range from $9.99 to $14.99. I don't really want to say what I think about buying a movie for my computer/iPod and another for my DVD player. Also, what happens to your movie collection when your hard drive bites the dust. Well, Apple is all set for the holiday season, let me know if you pick up any of the new iPods and make sure you download iTunes, but the most interesting thing was a device that is currently being called iTV, it is a device that hooks up to your TV via HDMI, Component, or Composite and will receive your videos being sent from your wireless Mac/PC iTunes similar to what the airport express and will be available in Q1 of 2007.
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