[...] Yes, there’s still months for this to change, and yes, this is a 1.0, and yes, one reason the iPod became the iPod is because Cupertino retained 100% quality control (up to the point of individual musical taste). So I would completely understand why user-installable applications are off the table. Or why, as my friends have speculated, how third-party functionality might be handled only in a tightly controlled and for-pay way (ala iPod Games). [...]