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You know, I've never seen myself as an Apple fanboy and I'm not going to start now. Despite having a Mini at home and loving MacOS as much as the next guy, I still try to keep it sane – I own a recently purchased Creative Stone plus, far superior to iPod shuffle, IMHO. I always try to make educated decisions when I evict my money from mine to someone else's pocket. Thus, I never found enough good reasons to buy an overpriced iPod... that is, until – maybe – now.

Screw the nanos, classics and the buzz-buzz of the iPhone 24h debacle (Steve managed to clear his face a little, check the open letter to iPhone owners). I'm talking about the iPod touch, of course. iPhone as it stands now is still half the phone I need or want. But the platform is pretty impressive, specially after seeing Nuno's up close. Safari on my pocket? Hell yes.

This is not just the webdeveloper in me talking, the user craving for eye-candy is pretty excited as well. But don't get me wrong, I still love my Opera Mini, and will never ever make an iPhone/iPod touch (see how ridiculous it is?) specific website. But Safari? Damn, mobile scripting is coming and it comes in a pretty package!

So what's the title all about?

Ever since I saw the 3rd or 4th gen iPod, I had a vision and a wish. What if your portable media player was able to connect to your own computer via wifi/bluetooth and sync everything up. Calendar, address book, MP3 playlists, podcasts (please, please, make the podcasts accessible from the iTunes WiFi Store), videos, whatever! And everything as transparent as possible? Would be pretty sweet, eh?

Well, that's why Apple is coming close. They have the technology laid out and they have the balls! With these two high-end devices sporting WiFi and outstanding media playing capabilities, the time is now! Do it. Show Microsoft what a mistake it was to waste the Zune WiFi with silly DRM.

Well, for now, I'm pretty impressed with iPod touch, even if it makes me carry around another device, my trustworthy Nokia 6630. Let's just wait and see what the transoceanic flight will do to the iPhone. I hope there's 3G and decent bluetooth selling on the Duty Free of his flight.

Keep an eye out for Apple Expo in Paris, September 25-29.