Okay, someone explain why there was so much speculation on Monday about Apple’s whole “It’s Showtime” thing on Tuesday, yet nothing about what actually happened when I checked the news last night?

Furthermore, I just opened the iTunes Music Store to check out this week’s free songs, and bang, it looks completely different. New colors (blue), new layout, $9.99 movie downloads, and apparently iTunes 7 and Quicktime 7.1.3 are released as well — could’ve fooled me. Whatever happened to iTunes frickin’ telling me when there’s an update? I had to accidentally view some TV show downloads to find out

Also, since when are there iPod games? I just noticed the little Music Store button today. Not like I can use them (they only work with 5G iPods — I have a 4G) and the $44 price tag is kinda high, but still — games on my iPod (and my phone for that matter) would be nice.

Edit: Just finished downloading iTunes 7. Um, yeah. New colors (more blue) and layout on that too. Is the pretty white/silver/gray motif gone for good? It looks cool and all, it’s just, wtf, usually there’s some kind of news/warning with this much change. Now it’s updating the album artwork on my 4,508 songs …