MacSwitching.com > The beat goes on for Apple on Sept. 5th

After more than two years of minor tweaks to its most popular product, it looks like Apple is ready for new iPods as partner site iPodPalace.com reports here and here on likely iTunes 8 upcoming.

Several weeks of rumors about a pending iPod announcement were apparently confirmed late Tuesday afternoon, when Apple sent out an invitation to the media for an event on Wednesday in San Francisco. True to form, the company didn’t explicitly say what was expected, but the white silhouette of a dancing iPod user didn’t leave much to the imagination.

As the invite says, “the beat goes on” for Apple’s iPod division. Almost six years after the debut of the iPod, Apple dominates the handheld music player market with 72.4% of the market in the first half of this year, according to research by The NPD Group.