The personal technology columnist for 
The New York Times, David Pogue, had a discussion with Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs, who returned Wednesday as the primary Apple keynote speaker, about some unsolved questions after the annual iPod media event, which took place in San Francisco, a media event that gave us a new iPod family, iPhone OS 3.1 and iTunes 9.
One thing that many had hoped would be introduced on Wednesday’s event was the iTablet, and to the question on Steve Jobs’ opinion on a Kindle-like device he said that people probably aren’t willing to pay for a dedicated device and pointed out that Amazon doesn’t ever say how many Kindles it sells, because they’re probably not proud of the facts and numbers.
Also there has been a lot confusion about why Apple hasn’t implemented a camera in the new iPod Touch, but only a camera in the iPod Nano. To this question, Steve Jobs answers that Apple isn’t exactly sure if they should market it like an ‘iPhone without the phone’ or a pocket computer, but what they did was asking the consumers, which started to see it as a game machine. What Apple did with the new iPod Touch was to give the customers the lowest-cost way to the App Store and Apple had their focus on reducing the price on the new Touch so everyone could afford it. A built-in camera will make it more expensive and that’s why they didn’t build a camera into the new iPod Touch.
On the question about Steve Jobs’ current health status he answered: “I probably need to gain about 30 pounds, but I feel really good. I’m eating like crazy. A lot of ice cream.”
Bill Keller, The New York Times executive editor, talked to the digital group at The New York Times October 16th with focus on the next couple of months. In his speech he mentioned delivery of content to mobile devices, including the “impending Apple slate.”
