Video roundup: Jobs, new iPods take the Apple stage

Our cameras were rolling Wednesday morning at Apple's San Francisco press conference as the company played up iTunes 9, iPod price cuts, games for the Touch, a video camera for the iPod Nano, and much more.

But the real spotlight was on Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who made his first public appearance since returning from medical leave after receiving a liver transplant earlier this year.

Here's a roundup of our video coverage, beginning with Jobs' standing ovation and opening speech.

Steve Jobs is back
For the first time in a nearly a year, and five months after undergoing a liver transplant, Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes center stage at the company's 2009 music product launch event. Jobs thanks the Apple community and urges everyone to sign up to become an organ donor.

iPod Nano gets a video camera
Apple CEO Steve Jobs reveals the next generation iPod Nano. New features include video, voice recording, an FM radio, and a pedometer.

Apple's iTunes 9
Jeff Robbin, Apple's VP of consumer applications, demonstrates the newest iTunes store and the home-sharing feature, which allows up to five authorized computers in one home to share music, TV shows and apps.

Madden NFL 10 comes to iPhone , iPod Touch
Travis Boatman of Electronic Arts shows off Madden NFL 10, the first game in the popular franchise to be sold in the Apple App Store.

Apple's iTunes LP
Jeff Robbin, Apple's vice president of consumer applications, shows off iTunes 9's new LP feature. Purchased albums come with many extras, including album art, song lyrics, photos, and video.

[ywkhgqo]

Lets be honest. Apple completely dropped the ball on this. <br />The touch is essentially completely unchanged.<br />The ipod classic had NOTHING, NADA ZIP added to it. (yes, included the 160 GB upgrade, they had that in 2007)<br />The shuffle is still an overpriced unusable POS.<br />the nano got legitimate upgrades that ALL ipods should have received.<br /><br />also,<br />a VIDEO CAMERA BUT NO STILL PICTURES? DUBYA T EFF?

[pooyan69]

Not to include the camera with any of the touch models was a HUGE mistake on Apples part considering the Zune comes out the 15th with better hardware and features. With the camera at least, the "new" touch players, if you can call them new would at least have something the ZuneHD would not have. <br />Major fubar Apple.

[Mark_Anderson]

So I was a right then - a colossal waste of time.<br /><br />No need to apologise, fanboys! :)

[shycelticwitch]

You are right about one thing, your comments are a colossal waste of time. You know nothing. If you don't buy the products you don't know anything about them other than what you read, and obviously you don't do that too well either.

[ComeToTerms]

@ywkhgqo...I COMPLETELY AGREE. <br />I AM SO DISAPPOINTED!!! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A 64/128GIG iTOUCH FOR 2YRS NOW. MY LIBRARY IS 45GIGS STRONG AND GROWING. MIND YOU, I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT APPLE ADDING A CAMERA BUT ONCE I HEARD ABOUT THE RUMORS MONTHS AGO, I WOULD NEVER, EVER PURCHASE THIS NEW iTOUCH UNTIL ITS FULLY UPGRADED. WHO WANTS TO THROW AWAY $400 JUST TO SEE APPLE MAKE MONEY BY HOLDING BACK TECHNOLOGY THEY COULD HAVE EASILY PUT OUT TODAY AND RELEASE IT MONTHS LATER. I'M SURE EITHER APRIL 2010 OR SEPTEMBER 2010 WE WILL SEE THE iTOUCH WITH BOTH STILL IMAGE AND VIDEO CAPABILITIES BUT DAMN... YOU ALREADY HAVE THE MARKET CORNERED ON THE DAMN MP3 PLAYERS YOU BASTARDS! STOP BEING GREEDY AND GIVE BACK ALREADY! THE ONLY THING BIG TODAY IS THE NANO. AND IF I HAD KIDS, MAYBE THEN I'D HAVE SOMETHING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT. UNTIL THEN, APPLE YOU F'IN SUCK! RESPECTIVELY.

[mik868e]

To paraphrase the event:<br /><br />"Hey everyone we're really great. And everyone else? They are really bad. By the way here are some software updates. Did we mention that we are really great? And everyone else is really bad? Fantastic. Thanks for your time."<br /><br />It might be time for Apple to ditch the annual event and host events only when there is something to introduce.

[pooyan69]

The real insult will be if Apple "upgrades" the touch players with the camera a year later or even worse earlier. I then feel sorry for the people who bought this one....

Oh great! New colors for the iPod Shuffle! Now I can get one for working out....oh wait, they didn't mention anything on giving the headphone controls moisture resistance right? Dang... well pity me, I guess I should just buy me a Sansa Clip+ WHICH I CAN USE FOR WORKING OUT AND HAVE NORMAL WORKING CONTROLS!

[sydney_boy]

GIANT letdown, been waiting so long for a DECENT ipod classic /ipod touch update (not a $#^@ing camera on an ipod nano)! what a waste of an announcement, i understand steve jobs, you need to show the world your still alive, but you can do that through a blog or something. Bad move, broke alot of apple junkies hearts today

[alankilduff]

Seems like apple went to sleep while steve was away - for the best part of a year they tweaked itunes, put a camera in the ipod touch and make osx a bit faster. Would really worry you about what is apple without jobs ?

[keitheboy]

my ipod 60g broke two weeks ago heard about the apple show and was very disappointed with the no camera itouch what a jerk so spend 299 now or go 6months to a year without like i said what jerk