iPod U2, iPod Photo, iPod Europe

Plenty of fresh updates from Apple today:
- A special-edition 20GB iPod featuring U2 colors, signatures and preloaded tracks.
- iPod Photo, a 60GB iPod with color and photo slideshow capabilities.
- Pan-european iTunes Music Store, now in 9 new Euro-member countries.

One step closer indeed for Apple as a digital media company, while renewing its fashionable and designer appeal with the iPod. Let's just hope that with the photo feature, they have managed to keep the user experience simple and streamlined - as I think that it is what distantiate Apple's player from the rest of the crowd: a superb yet straightforward interface and overall integration between the mobile "on-the-go" and the desktop worlds. Once again, the gap between geeky features and real and palpable customer benefits, which Apple seems to understand pretty well so far.