You really just don't like facts, do you? Go look at the Apple Store and find out how much a 32GB Touch costs. Then tell me how much a 32GB Zune HD costs. Then tell me on what planet the difference equals "2-3x".

After you're done with all that hard work you can go back to fairy imagination land and believe whatever you want.

It was an iPod event in which every single iPod was upgraded, some more significantly than others. Prices were also dropped across the board. What is the problem, exactly?

Oh yeah, and no tablet at an iPod event? Really? SHOCKING.

Bullshit. Read this:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/liver.transplant.priority.lists/index.html

You can't buy your way to the front of the line. The fact is that Jobs got on the list in the first place because of the severity of his condition. Just like everybody else on the priority one list.

1. I dare you to explain how Steve Jobs is a monopolist.
2. Apple dropped prices across the entire iPod line. Yeah I guess that's the same thing as prices going up.

astevenson - Apple had an iPod event today, dimwit. Engadget covers ALL gadget-related events like this. Are you just conveniently not here when Engadget reports on other events or other product launches or something?

The Mac OS isn't even serialized, it runs on the honor system. The codecs and formats Apple uses are all open (OpenGL, OpenCL, MP4, PNG, XML, etc.), and your "ripping off" and "moneygrubbing" comments make absolutely no sense. Unless you think all Apple products should be free or something?

Hi, welcome to 2009, where the iTunes Store is the #1 music retailer in the USA. Nobody gives a shit if you can buy the CDs because that's not how people prefer to buy music these days. Ignoring these facts means you're being willfully ignorant about the state of music sales in the US, and you're doubly stupid if you think Apple Corps wouldn't want to sell The Beatles' catalog on iTunes, or that nobody will buy it.

Your allusions to religious fanaticism are misplaced simply because you don't appear to understand what the term "#1 music retailer in the United States" means. Remember, you don't have to like it, but you do have to accept it.

"I don't know why everyone thinks there is some big link to the Beatles because they're having the event on Sept. 9."

Because The Beatles Rock Band is also being released on Sept. 9.

Burke - By that I'm sure you mean 3rd party developers are trying to solve their own problems. It's really not Apple's responsibility to re-code other developers' applications for them, is it?

It won't be 128GB because they can only fit two chips into a Touch, and currently only the 32GB chips have come down in price enough to be feasible. This is also why the iPhone only goes up to 32GB, because the iPhone can only hold one chip vs. two chips in the Touch.