iPhone 2.1 Firmware:
- Significantly better battery life
- Fewer call drops
- Bug fixes
- Faster backups to iTunes
- No App crashes

iPod Touch (2G):
- 2.1 Firmware
- Built-in speaker, volume controls
- Genius playlist
- Nike+iPod support
- Battery: 36 hours for music, 6 hours for video.
- $229 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB, $399 for 32GB

iPod Nano (4G):
- Thinnest iPod ever
- Enhanced user interface
- Accelerometer to detect tilt
- Shake iPod to shuffle
- Genius playlist built in
- Aluminum with curved glass
- Battery: 24 hours for music. 4 hours for video.
- $149 for 8GB. $199 for 16GB.
- 9 Colors: silver, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, black

iTunes 8:
- Support for High Definition TV shows
- $1.99 for Standard Definition episodes
- $2.99 for High Definition episodes
- Genius playlists: automatically find similar songs in your collection

iPod Classic and iPod Shuffle:
- The iPod classic now comes in a 120GB model, replacing the 160GB and 80GB models
- The iPod shuffles have been revamped with new colors but the same price and storage.

The latest NPD Data as reported by MacDailyNews reveals that Apple has had significant year-over-year growth in their notebook sales.

Apple's notebook marketshare in the U.S. jumped up to 10.6% in Q2 2008. This is up from 6.6% in the year-ago Q2 quarter. Based on the chart, most of that marketshare was taken from Acer and Toshiba.

In absolute numbers, Apple has historically reached as high as 10.1% marketshare for a one month period in January of last year, but the year-over-year trend across a 3 month period still seems notable.

Check out the source of the following statement: PC Magazine.

”It's the best portable media player ever. It's possibly the most fun we've ever had with a handheld device. It browses the Web like a champ.

Fun new interface for navigating multimedia. Huge screen looks amazing. Terrific Web browser. Syncs well with PCs and Macs. YouTube function is great. Functions flow seamlessly into each other. Built-in speaker for voice calling and music.”

The iPhone is already the second-most popular cellular phone in the US, and third in the world. Some say it is revolutionizing what people think a cell phone should be, and changing the entire cell phone industry.

Get my take on the current lineup of Macintosh computers. The switch to Intel processors is complete and to almost everyone's surprise it was a smooth ride. Apple doubled the number of Macs it sold during the year of transition. Now that Adobe has produced native versions of their flagship software, all existing users of Intel Macs (and Adobe's new software) will see a speed increases as well as improved stability. We now await Microsoft's introduction of Office 2007 (now scheduled for 2008) for the Mac to see it running natively as well.