i've had a ton of ipods, from the 1st gen nano's, to now, an 8gb 2nd gen touch.
now, i gotta say, the design is very slick, the device itself is a very nice piece of machinery...
but here's my beef with ipods...A. for 270ish dollars, im pretty sure i could've gotten a way larger capacity mp3 player than 8gb...i mean, i have sandisk SD cards that are 16gb and they cost less than this thing.
secondly, the ipod appears very easy to use on the surface, but the problem is, it's like having a car that has the hood welded shut, it works fine when it works, but when you need to do something technical with it, or try to figure out a bug, unless you are really good with their software, it's going to be next to impossible to get it done without bringing it to a "genius", as they call them...
thirdly, they make transferring music SO difficult...im sure it's a concession to the music industry, but it's a major inconvenience, and pretty much makes their itunes software the only place to get music, and locks your computer down as the only thing that can talk to your pod...so if your computer has a problem and gets erased, your ipod is SOL. (well, the data on it is anyway)...and if you have a previous gen ipod, and want to transfer your library to your new ipod, no dice...you have to manually go into windows and show the hidden folders to get to YOUR data.
this is a problem because i dont have the same computer that i did when the ipod first came out, so i ended up eating crow on a lot of music that i bought, and couldn't transfer over (some of the data was lost during transfer, so out of almost 500 legally, fully purchased songs, i got less than half of them onto the new ipod.). luckily i have a lot of the CD's, but some of them got lost or broken...so that's just lost data that i paid for...
short of those major downfalls, the ipod touch is a very unique gadget. out of all the new touch devices, it's by far the easiest to use, and has pretty much the best features.
my next mp3 however, will likely not be an apple product...
enjoy yours though, the nano's are awesome...really compact, yet, they hold a ton of music, and the new ones have awesome video quality. just make sure you keep the computer you set it up with...for as long as you have the pod.