The MacWorld Keynote went down today and there were some great new updates announced for the iPhone and, apparently it’s red headed step brother, the iPod Touch. Some of the updates include new arrangement features for customizing your home screen, up to 9 total home screens can be saved, on both iPhone and iPod Touch. You can also SMS multiple people at once, find your location via Google Maps and Skyhook Wireless, and Webclips can be accessed via the home screen.

Steve Jobs also showed off other new features like Lyrics, Chapters, Languages, and all the new multimedia features included in the v1.1.3 firmware update. Jobs says, “All of this is valuable today as a free software update for every iPhone.” But wait, there’s more. “But what about the iPod touch? What can we do for the touch? We decided to add five Apps to the Touch. Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes, and Weather!” That’s great, right? Wrong! “Starting today we’re going to build it into every new iPod touch, for existing iPod touch users it’s going to be just a $20 upgrade.” See. Epic Fail.

So, let me get this straight. I can pay a mere $20 to get all five of the Apps that the iPod Touch was stripped of originally, you know the ones the iPhone comes with, or I can hack it and get all those plus a ton more, minus the $20. Hmm? That’s a hard choice. Probably the worst thing about this is that Jobs said starting today, all new iPod Touch’s they ship will come with these updates. What the heck? Do you have to pay $20 more for a new iPod Touch in the store? Let me think… NO! While this is nowhere near the amount of $200 that original iPhone user’s were outraged over paying for early adoption last year, I think it is a problem on the same level.

Epic Fail Apple! I still like my iPod Touch. I just like it hacked.

Boom!