iPods. Once a year or once in a lifetime?

I know you guys don't give a shit, but as this is MY blog I can do what I want (and as nobody's reading it…). I started this discussion with a friend by email and have been thinking about this for the last couple of days. When you buy an iPod, is it for life or is it until our friends in cupertino decide to release another functionality (probably already existing on your iPod but simply disabled for marketing purposes). Well, to me it kind of goes back to the basic principles not only of IT but life and how you deal with it. In a recent visit to a website promoting free-ish wifi access (www.fon.es) they asked whether you wanted to be a "linus" and share your wifi access point with all members of the community (and benefit from their access point when you're somewhere else) or whether you wanted to be a "bill" and actually get paid for people to use your access point. It's a bit the same thing, but instead of a linus and bill it should be "trabant" (you used to only need one in you entire life) and "footballer's wife" (you have to change it every 2 years -the silicone is not covered by the warranty after that). What are you really interested in? If you just want an mp3 player that works and has a decent battery life, then you know you won't need to upgrade your ipod (or anything else) every year. If what you're after is for people to check out your latest gadget even though you have only uploaded 3 songs in, it is a very different thing. Your ipod is not going to stop working when a new one comes out, but on the other hand I will have some problems in trying to watch a movie on my ipod.
So what's the point you must be thinking! Shall we? Shall we not buy the latest ipod? Well, it's good to see I can bullshit my way through and this piece was only to auto-convince me that I actually DO need a new iPod and retire the 2002 one I'm using currently. C'mon how can I resist the new nano? Well, based on the image below I should be able to resist, but I don't think I will...

And if you're looking for something cool (and huge) to go with your nano, here it is: http://www.macally.com/spec/ipod/mtunen.html