Some random updates to the iPod Touch, iPhone firmware, iTunes software and nano products. Apple held a press event in San Francisco Tuesday updating it’s iPod product line and iTunes software. While this is mostly incremental improvements, it still adds up to quite a bit of news from the market leader. No wonder Apple’s market share continues to hold. And for those who haven’t noticed, Apple is not only the leading vendor of MP3 players, it’s also the leading retailer of music. Not just online music –all music. Apple has now surpassed Walmart in music sales. That’s quite a feat! -Updates to the iPhone 2.1 firmware to fix crashing problems and dropped calls. -iPod touch 2nd generation now in a slimmer form factor and at a lower price (8GB for $229, 16GB for $299, 32GB for $399). Also improved the usability with a volume control and external speaker. –iPod Nano with 24 hour battery life for music, 10 hours of video (8GB for $149, 16GB for $199) –iPod Classic now available in 120GB version ($249) –iTunes 8.0 featuring a Genius feature for dynamically creating playlists of similar songs. Ok, no major breakthroughs, but still good progress. I’m sure many iPhone users will be happy just to have the improvements in the firmware. Open Source