I was thinking exactly the same thing. What a boring year for new Apple products. When they have been so prolific in recent years and not to bring anything new out all year apart from those shoes (well would you bother, seems to be a desperate move to get SOMETHING out) sets the alarm bells ringing that they may be losing their touch. AND they jump into bed with intel a seriously underperfoming outfit, who makes out of date processors too.
Come on Apple give us new stuff-something different not just a slightly smaller, thinner ipod.