LiveNotes

* It always warms my heart to see Steve Wozniak at an Apple event – and to see Steve Jobs pointing him out. Those guys were the Danny Ocean and Rusty Ryan of Silicon Valley back in the day, and if you were ever part of the Apple machine, there’s a little bit of joy that comes from being part of the long rainbow line.

* The Covent Garden store is a destination next time I go to London. I’d swear I saw it boarded up in June and didn’t realize that’s what it was, though I could be mistaken…basically I just need an excuse to go to London again.

* Da Wife, I think, will be happy to have HDR pictures…

* Wireless printing = we just took another big step toward iPad as laptop replacement.

* A complete rebuild of the entire iPod line. Not surprising, honestly.

* The iPod Shuffle is something I’ll need to buy, if only for exercising and long plane flights when I’ll need my phone battery. And at $49, that’s couch-cushion material.

* Actually, that iPod nano may be the way to go. If it has a dock connector, that’s the one to get, because that could be the travel pod, the exercise pod, and the car stereo pod all in one. (And looking at the demo, I don’t know how else they’re doing video out.) The Product (RED) version will probably be on my friv list as soon as it ships.

* iPod Touch has displaced the Nano? Not surprising. This is a product that nobody else has – there’s not an Android equivalent, or a Blackberry equivalent. No phone, no contract – it’s almost time to think of it as an iPad Nano rather than an iPod at all. And with the iPhone display, processor and cameras – plus FaceTime and iMovie – it’s just ridiculous. $229 for 8 GB, $299 for 32 GB, $399 for 64 GB = they’re gonna sell a million of these next week.

* Another social network? Ah well. Probably Facebook integrated. Actually it’s not a bad way to get new music recommendations – presumably your friends will be able to offer you more than a random Genius algorithm.

* And this is where the network started cutting out on me.

* Actually that could have just been my computer trying to save itself from catching an STD off the Lady Gaga video.

* After four years of malingering, the AppleTV finally gets some attention. This is the new HDTV interface, looks like – this is how you will get iTunes content straight to your big screen. Personally, the clincher for my household may be the ability to stream Netflix content right to the TV…

* Major cutting out now.

* How much abuse am I letting myself in for if I say “that wasn’t the beginning of that Glee episode”?

* Being able to stream from your iPhone or iPad to the TV is…interesting. Would certainly make it easier to go over to somebody’s house and show your own content…

* I always thought we’d buy the newer version of the AppleTV once we bought our HDTV, but that was two years ago – I certainly wasn’t expecting it to take until 2010 to get said newer version. But at $99, it’s good we waited.

* Here’s a question: is this is for the iPod Classic? Admittedly, it’s a hell of a niche product at this point, but it’s still one with a market, and I could certainly use one as the last-resort backup device…

* Coldplay’s Chris Martin as the capper? Not bad…although I was kind of hoping for the Killers ;]