Apple Announces iPod Pepto

Apple introduced a new version of its eight gigabyte iPod nano digital media player this morning. And it’s pink, which according to Apple is among the iPod’s “much-requested” colors (noticeably absent from that list: the “National Park Bench Brown” shade pioneered by Microsoft’s Zune team.)

“Customers are going to love the gorgeous new pink iPod nano,” Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing, enthused in a gushy press release. “The pink iPod nano is perfect for people who want a great new color this spring, or who are searching for a special Valentine’s Day gift.”