Went with the flow (Stephen bought an iPod classic) and bought an iPod touch in San Fran. Surprised at how much I like the device - I always thought there were a bit useless but I'm really enjoying it.
Stephen and I went into Virgin in the middle of the city looking for ipods. They had a pretty small range. Then we decided San Fran must have an Apple store, so we walked for *hours* looking for it. Couldn't find it anywhere. Crazy. So we trudged back to the hotel to look up the address...and we found out it was very close to where we just were. How had we missed it? We trudged back...and there it was, a huge, hulking Apple store with a massive Apple symbol on it...directly opposite the Virgin store we had first walked into. No idea how we had missed it...could it have been simply because it didn't have the word "Apple" written on a wall somewhere?
That's a quote from michaeltwofish's mechanic and I think it makes a great point. There are a lot of people out there who aren't computer/Internet/web savvy and this is significant! Sometimes I think the web is for geeks only...