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Overall the event was pretty interesting. The iPods were interesting. The Touch gets a camera and the retina display as I’m sure everyone was expecting. Nothing too exciting with all those – as far as an upgrade goes. If you don’t have a Touch that would definitely be a great buy.

iTunes 10 looks pretty interesting. The Ping option seems neat for those that plan to use it. I don’t use iTunes that way so not much for me there. The Apple TV looked pretty cool, and when you combine iTunes with Netflix, that is a whole lot of entertainment. That could be a pretty cool combination. Interesting that only Fox and ABC chose to sign up. On the surface it looks pretty interesting, will definitely have to get more details on how all of that is going to work. Content producers really need to get on board something like the Apple TV if they want to get more content into the hands of paying customers and move away from everyone downloading shows through torrents.

But anyway, pretty predictable stuff. Each one gets a few niceties so that’s not too bad. No new upgrades for me, but I like the new devices. I will have to check out the Apple TV, a combination of iTunes with Netflix could be a lot of really good programming.

It’ll be interesting to see what kind of changes the iPod Touch will get for its next iteration. A camera being added is mildly interesting but not really worth an upgrade. Will it get the retina display of the iPhone 4? Again, not a bad thing, but is it upgrade worthy? I have the 32GB 3rd generation and don’t see either of those being enough to make me get another. I’m wondering what else might be in store as an upgrade.

However, once the new Touch 4 comes out, I’m seriously considering getting another iPod Touch, but a 64GB model. I think the price is going to drop nicely and it would be a good time to grab another one. One would be nothing but games. The other would be nothing but music. Perhaps that’s overkill, I’m not sure.

I’m still waiting for my chance to strike on an iPad. The long shipping times and complete lack of availability seems to be at an end. I’d really like to have one before Thanksgiving and all the holiday time away from work.

But before I make any decisions, let’s see what this Apple event has in store for us.

Electronic Arts has put a whole new batch of games on sale today.

Game of Life – $0.99
Monopoly – $0.99
Monopoly Here & Now – $0.99
Yahtzee – $0.99
Risk – $1.99

Not a bad list of games. Risk has the biggest drop, coming down from $4.99…