If this is a fake, it’s very elaborate. Word is that the details are being withheld until the SDK is released in February, so as to prevent Apple from blocking the jailbreak method.

John Gruber:

One reason, I think, is that unlike with iPhones, Apple is not accounting for iPod Touches on a subscription basis — so they have to charge something to add features in order to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley.

Makes sense.

An optional $20 upgrade for current iPod Touch owners that enables the Mail, Maps, Weather, Notes, and Stocks apps. It’s shitty of Apple to charge early adopters when new Touches come with the upgrade for free. But it’s certainly not an unreasonable price for such great apps.

I’ve always preferred David Watanabe’s NewsFire over NetNewsWire as my RSS feed reader of choice. But now that NetNewsWire is free, offers online syncing of feeds between computers, and a MobileSafari-optimized web viewer, I may reconsider.

Updated Mac Pros are exciting. What’s even more exciting is the fact that Apple didn’t feel the need to save this announcement for Macworld Expo. They must already have plenty of announcements planned for next Tuesday.

Presumably to announce Microsoft equivalents of products that Apple announced last year.

Todd Haselton for Laptop Magazine:

Bijan Rezvani, on vacation in New York, dropped his iPhone on the subway tracks and then, in an act some would call suicidal and others illegal, jumped down to save it.

Wow. What an ass.