Excitable Mac users freak out over typo

That title could have just as easily have read: “Apple accidentally references forthcoming touch-screen iPod,” but that would make me just like the Mac users who freak out over an obvious typo. MacDailyNews is running a story which highlights an Apple reference to a touch-screen iPod, as quoted below:

Note: Linking to photos and videos is supported only for 5th generation iPods running iPod Software version 1.2 or later. All other Notes feature capabilities described in this document are supported for iPod models with display screens, beginning with the touch-screen models.

The note has since been changed by Apple to read:

Note: Linking to photos and videos is supported only for 5th generation iPods running iPod Software version 1.2 or later. All other Notes feature capabilities described in this document are supported for iPod models beginning with third-generation iPod (dock connector) models with touch wheel.

I ask you, intelligent and insightful MacUser readers, does that sound like a “slip” to you? Because to me it has pure typo written all over it.

The note previously read, “beginning with the touch-screen models.” Now, if Apple references the beginning of a past iPod model line, and there is obviously no current touch-screen iPod, why in the name of Woz would you rejoice over the mention of a touch-screen iPod? All it takes is one technical writer who’s had three too many coffees at 4 AM, and voila, touch-wheel becomes touch-screen. Really, it’s an easy mistake to make, and while a touch-screen iPod could appear tomorrow, I promise this typo is no indication of something to come.