Engadget has the highlights of the David Pogue interview with Jobs - reliably, the fanboy doesn't ask the kind of tough questions that the rest of us would like to see answered. Of course, if he actually did his job, Apple might stop sending him cool toys to play with.... How do you say "conflict of interest" again?

According to Steve, Apple wasn't "exactly sure how to market the touch" at first, but once they listened to their customers and started to focus on gaming, "it just took off." That certainly explains the "funnest iPod ever" tagline, but still, why no cam? "We don't need to add new stuff -- we need to get the price down to where everyone can afford it." And... that's all he said about it, and Poguey didn't pursue the blindingly obvious followup: that's great for the $199 8GB model, but does Apple really think customers paying $299 and $399 for the larger editions would be turned off by paying slightly more for a camera sensor? Something tell us we won't hear Jobs say one more word about it until he's ready to actually unveil a touch with a camera -- at which point it will be a revolution.

I still think Apple is having a line confusion issue with the high end Touches and the iPhone. It's kind of silly, as any eating into iPhone share is still money in Apple's pocket.

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