New Apple stuff

Was anyone else kind of underwhelmed by the new Apple products announced yesterday?

iTunes looks ok, but none of the new features are really available to me (no album covers because I didn't import with iTunes, no movies for Europe yet (although in fairness I won't buy them then anyway)), and now there's an ugly blue icon in my dock. As for the interface, which apparrently is a preview of what the Leopard UI will look like; well, perhaps shinyshiny Aqua needed to be toned down a tad, but there's something about the dull scrollbars that whispers KDE to me.

I never liked the design of the iPod mini, and now the Nano looks like it. I guess the Shuffle is nice, but I think I prefer the design of the old one, and it can't be plugged directly into a USB port, which is a big shame.

This goes to show how important design is in Apple's products for some people. No doubt, from an engineering point of view the new products are great (24 hour battery life for the Nano!), but here I am, griping about a blue icon.