Apple announced quite a few new products for the holiday season a couple days ago. The iPod nano with a widescreen for video and the iPod touch seem to garner the most attention. I am not a big on-the-go music fan and I don’t own an iPod and can really use the iPod touch with the cool touch screen interface. It also has Safari built in so I can browse over wi-fi. It works just like the iPhone and who doesn’t love the iPhone?

However, after some more thoughts, if I can only use Safari when I am in a wi-fi hotspot, what’s the point if I already plan to get myself a macbook? The only difference would be the touch screen UI, but is it really better than a macbook’s UI, with a keyboard and a mouse? No. Touch screen is cool but the iPod touch is just for play. I ain’t gonna shell out $299 or $399 for something that I can do better with a macbook.

What would be really cool is some 3rd party developers write a Skype app that can appear as an icon on the iPhone or iPod touch so I can totally bypass the cellular network when I have city-wide wi-fi access. Then I can save some cell phone bills.

Oh, a larger capacity with both flash and hard drive would be a nice addition as 16GB is really not enough nowadays. The iPod nano does have a 160GB option. I guess you can’t get ‘em all in one…

The Google Map integrated into the iPhone itself works great though. Is this a bug or am I just missing something? Hopefully Apple fixes this soon because this means all websites that have drag and drop like Ta-da list are not usable (though I have not tried Ta-da list on the iPhone).

Update: Just headed over to the iPhone Developer Site. According to Apple’s Web Development Guidelines:

“A few other things to keep in mind about fingers as an input device:
* There are no gestures to perform cut, copy, paste, drag-and-drop, and text selection operations.
* The width of a finger limits the density of links on a page. If the links are too close, your users won’t be able to choose a single one.”

So the answer is no, at least for now.