It doesn’t take a turban and crystal ball to know that we’ll see yet another crop of iPods in the fall of 2011, which should also spawn a new version of iTunes.

were all the rage in 2010, and Apple even got into the spirit by and then . That, combined with Apple’s , continues to fuel speculation that Apple will unveil a subscription-based streaming music service of its own. And if subscription does come to iTunes, Apple can concentrate on turning Ping into something useful -- letting people share playlists that others can actually play, for example.

The new Apple TV runs a version of iOS (instead of a modified version of OS X 10.4, as the previous Apple TV did). So does that mean we might see the ability to download and run apps? Apple already did what many of us thought would never happen -- provide competition to the iTunes Store on the Apple TV in the form of Netflix streaming support -- so might we see additional content sources as apps in the future? The support a huge variety of content, including Netflix, NHL Game Center Live, Amazon Video on Demand, MLB.TV, and soon Hulu Plus. The Apple TV would be an even better set-top box with more ways to get content. And what about other things, like weather apps or ?