Sure. But then I wouldn't have the IPod, would I? Most of the less-savvy computer users in my family use Macs. There's a good reason for that.

It's a damn good product. I am better off living in a world with Steve Jobs - to name just one off a long list - in it.

Most corporations are reluctant to push shiny new products that aren't ready for delivery yet, since it screws up current sales without bringing in new ones. Apple is just really super secretive about it.

My timing just sucked. I'm not really blaming the company. A smarter person would have known at the very least that an "Apple Announcement" was imminent, always a bad time to buy an existing product. And if I had gone further and bothered to do any of my world-famous research, I might have spotted something like this a week before I made the purchase.

The point being: Yes, everybody DID know this except me, but that was my own fault.