Adrian, Steve clearly said that customers liked the new VoiceOver, but missed the buttons. Apple's response is logical. Bring the buttons back. It's called responding to what customers want - you often accuse Apple of being arrogant, but this small concession shows they do listen to what customers actually want.
The Nano, who knows maybe this will be a similar misstep, but I think smaller is probably a step in the right direction. The video camera wouldn't fit with this.
It seems most of their eggs are in the iPod touch basket. It get cameras, the display from the iPhone 4, the gyroscope, and the faster processor - these are probably "no-brainers", but what else did you expect? Essentially the iPhone 4 is the "flagship" product of the iOS range, so the iPod touch isn't going to have anything that it lacks.
The old iPod classic, well what can you do to it? It hardly needs MORE storage. It is still the iPod that allows HUGE music collections - ideal for the car. But probably most people will be looking at other iPods in the range.
I think the "wow" is coming from the iPod touch - and did you not see Epic's demo?
You're going to tell me this is just "content" - but isn't content the real story of Apple's success here?
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