Apple announced an entire new line of iPods at yesterday’s keynote. Asside from redesigning the Shuffle and the Nano, and doubling the capacity of the standard iPod (now called the “iPod Classic”,) the really exciting news was the announcement of the much anticipated iPod Touch, which is effectively an iPhone with more storage and without the, well, phone.

Now I have to say it’s a very sexy device indeed; it’s got a big screen, a new UI and it looks gorgeous, but there’s no way on earth I’d buy one. Why? It’s got a maximum storage of 16GB, that’s why. It’s a move I just can’t understand. Why on Earth, would they give what is clearly their new flagship iPod 10% of the storage of the old-style one? Why would they give a device that is clearly intended for video playback less room than I need to store all my music, never mind something more to put some movies in? It’s a real shame, too. I have no intention of buying an iPhone – not unless it’s a lot cheaper in the UK than the US – and the prospect of an iPod that could play movies well, and be used as a handy wifi web browser is quite appealing, but only if it also meets all my requirements for a music player, and paramount amongst those requirements is that is simply must have enough storage for my music.

At the same time, the iPod classic has just too muchspace. Not that that’s any bad thing, and it’s the iPod I’d be looking at getting if mine were to break, but given that my current model, with 100GB less space, has enough room for my music and then some, there’s just no point upgrading there either.