The iPod Touch moment has arrived, according to Jeff Jarvis and it's significant because it makes me want to go and buy a iPod Touch today.  Also, Jeff Jarvis's post on The iPod moment is here — on the iPod makes a point that the reason iPod Touch did better in the UK than then here in the US; people are seeing the iPod Touch (why didn't they just call it "The iTouch") as an step down from the iPhone..but in the UK, they don't see it that way because they the got the iPod Touch before the iPhone.

"….These new devices represent the next generation of the computer: small, sleek, powerful, portable. Everything that the computer, the web, and the browser have done to content - enabling it to become infinite but personal; instantaneous yet permanent; unrestricted by medium because it offers all media; and enriched by the conversation around it - is now in the palm of your hand. Everything you can do on the web you can do with media on the iPhone, anywhere, any time."

Jeff Jarvis admits that he doesn't own an iPhone or iPod Touch, but wishes he did:

"….Sadly, I don’t own an iPhone. My teen son has one, bought with the proceeds of his Facebook application programming. His mother has ruled that if he can teach his dad to write apps, then perhaps I, too, can afford the wondrous gadget. But once in a while, he lets me play with it. And more important, I get to observe him using it. And what I see is quite simple and obvious: he’s on the web. For this is just a browser, always connected constantly with him."

Seems like Jeff Jarvis could just go out and buy an iPod Touch already - after writing a post like he just did - I don't understand why he hasn't.

It's also interesting that as soon as you call the iPod Touch a smaller laptop, it suddenly gets a lot more interesting to own one.  Just a thought.