As reported by Apple blogs and news sites such as Macworld and TUAW, Apple unveiled new iPod Touches, new iPod Nanos, and new iTunes 8.0, along with the new Genius Recommended tracks and playlists, HD content to watch on your computer, as well as the return of NBC programming. New toys, new shows, new games, bla bla bla. Yay for Apple.
Whoop-de-crap.
What’s the one feature I’ve been waiting for since I got my Mac two years ago? What’s the one feature people had been predicting with more certainty than ever? What’s the one feature that didn’t get unveiled today?
That would be the iTunes Unlimited Subscription service. That was a no-show today, leaving my hopes dashed and my Parallels-Windows-Rhapsody setup firmly in place, and not going anywhere. I would love to go “all Apple”, but I remain enamored enough with the concept of subscription music that I won’t get a shiny new iPod until they decide to try subscriptions. And no, I don’t think the new Genius feature is any sort of substitute.
Oh well.