I've been reading the rumors and speculation about Apple not introducing their new line of MacBooks at yesterday's event for weeks now...and I was really hoping that there would be that "one more thing..." moment where POW, new MacBooks...but as I read the live stream from Gizmodo.com, it was clear that there was nothing of value to come out of the Apple event for me.

I don't care about Nanos...colors or not. I don't care about the new iTouch and frankly I'm pissed that they didn't include an external speaker and external volume controls on the first edition of the iTouch, the one I have.

And the new iTunes to me = not much of a change. The Genius Bar, touted by some as iTunes version of Pandora holds no value for me. I, after all, don't purchase music on iTunes. I use it primarily as a podcatcher. 

All of the 'new' music I have is downloaded from band websites or through MySpace pages of bands. I don't listen to the typical radio fair that most people do...I can tell you you would be hard pressed to have ever heard any of the punk girl bands I dig the most on the radio. Seriously...have you ever heard Portugal Japan, Angry Amputees, Go Betty Go, The Gore Gore Girls, or Cootie Shot on the radio? I thought not...

So new genius bar for suggestions I don't care about, new nanos that I don't care about, a new iTouch that has features that should have been included in the first edition of the iTouch...and that's it.

Oh, I guess they promise that the App Store App crash problem will be fixed on Friday...which will be nice because my delete/reinstall trick hasn't worked for nearly 2 weeks on my iTouch and I haven't been able to use a single downloaded app.... I guess if anything, if Friday's firmware upgrade DOES fix my app store app crashes, that will at least be SOMETHING....

Now...I just await the impending and who knows when it'll happen MacBook release... Hurry up Apple....hurry up...