Not sure if he’s still ticked off from not being selected for this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but for some reason Jon Bon Jovi has decided to pin all what ails the music industry on Steve Jobs – accusing the Apple CEO of ‘killing the music business.’

Grasping at the nostalgia of rifling through albums at the local record store, Bon Jovi figures the rise of iTunes has taken away from the joy of discovering music. Last I checked the Bon Jovi catalog was still available on iTunes, so he can’t be that mad.

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Today Steve Jobs once again made one of his huge, and very dramatic announcements regarding the latest product from Apple. He unveiled a new line of iPods, which he called the “strongest lineup of iPods we’ve ever had.” Damn Steve, no pressure there. To help him kick off the new batch of goodies he tapped Coldplay front man Chris Martin and Lady Gaga.

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Yesterday was a big day for Apple. The iPod Nano got outfitted with video, the iPod Touch doubled in size, and most importantly, Steve Jobs was back from his liver transplant and in full fighting force. While there was no official announcement of The Beatles coming to iTunes, there was still plenty of excitement, and thanks to Wired we have the whole rundown.

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Apple announced yesterday at Macworld in San Francisco that it would eliminate the copyright protection software currently in place on all music the company sells.  CEO Steve Jobs had been calling for the elimination of the software, known as DRM, since early in 2007, but had met resistance from the record companies, although the record companies had permitted other retailers to sell music without the DRM software.  The new music sales will be higher-quality than previous iTunes downloads, at 256 KB per second AAC encoding instead of 128 KB MP3.

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