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Ok… so today’s announcements about revamping the iPod line was underwhelming to say the least, but something really struck another nerve with me.

I’ve been patiently awaiting the Nike+ announcement for the iPhone… Several times I’ve considered trading my new iPod Classic for my girlfriends iPod Nano just to use Nike+. I’m the kind of person that finds motivation to work out in graphs and charts of my progress… yea… I’m that kind of nerd…

So - the announcement that the new version of Nike+ only works with the second generation iPod Touch is immensely disappointing. Way to go Apple… make a product that is damn near mutually exclusive to the expensive iPhone that I own have one single feature I care about in an attempt to differentiate the two products enough so that everyone walks around with two nearly identical products… one in each pocket I guess…

I understand the reasoning behind not pushing a fitness app for the non-solid state hard drive based classics. That would be a genius bar nightmare… lots of fat nerds with their sweaty iPods that have been shaken to death from a few rounds around a track… but c’mon Apple… hook us iPhone users up. There is absolutely no reason to keep Nike+ away from us other to try to cash in on us double.

So, instead of the sweetness of being able to go out for a jog and, all out of breath, chime in on a conference call to tell some IT guy he’s an idiot while the latest Jack Johnson song is spinning in the background we’re left with the frustration of having to try to remember which iPhone looking thing to pick up to answer the phone call from work saying we’re late… again… hopefully we get it right this time…

Thanks for keeping us fat, Apple.