new iTunes and iPod accessories

Lots of interesting announcements from Apple, late last week. iTunes for Windows has been released, which exposes a whole world of Windows users to the pleasure of iTunes. For an office environment the main excitement seems to be lots more people sharing music with one another and enjoying the music, rather than focussing on the technology, which is quite an way to do things.
They also announced some new accessories for the 3rd generation iPods. A mic for voice recording and a new photo reader for storing digital pictures on the iPod hard drive.
They have also posted an iTunes Music Store link maker, which could be the start of a wider affiliate store.
This made me think that how much of a change would it be to add colour screen to the iPod and thus allow preview of images on the iPod. Add in the battery backup system based on AA batteries from Belkin and you have a read and display device that also plays music. Quite a nice all in one media toy. Then I thought that the iPod is no longer read only via the new mic, though it is only as mono wavs, but it is a start towards the mobile ripping mp3 player that everyone wants. So are taking the iPod in interesting directions, maybe bluetooth or wifi based music sharing might be next... it will not be the pda people thought when it was first released, but it is becoming something very interesting, more a personal media store, enough to make me want a 3rd gen one at any rate.
Buy the Voice recorder and the media reader from the Apple Store or buy an iPod from Amazon.co.uk, personally I think that the 20Gig one is the sweet spot this time, unless you have stacks of music, then you'll want the 40GB, which can act as a backup device too.