Apple Showtime: New iPods, new iTunes, same old razzmatazz

And then we moved on to the main event, a live broadcast of Steve Jobs' presentation in San Francisco. It started badly, with the announcement that the new version of the 5G iPod has a screen that's 60 per cent... brighter. There was a certain amount of settling down into chairs in anticipation of a long list of minor updates, but things picked up when Jobs moved on to the new nanos. As expected, they have aluminium cases and come in five colours. Apple has also managed to double the capacities to 2GB, 4GB and 8GB, while making them 0.4mm thinner.