Yeah, your mistake was Apple's fault.
I just remember a bunch of articles like the one below and it never occurred to me that Apple would consider putting two USB ports on instead of one to be a major inovation justifying a name change.
"So, Mac + iPod users are in the interesting position of being considered second class citizens by Apple, the maker of the Macintosh no less, as Mac users are being forced to pay extra for the superior FireWire connectivity that our iPods would naturally utilize to connect to our Macs. Because more Windows users buy iPods than Mac users, the iPod's connectivity is being dumbed down to match Wintel PC's second-rate "standards." Enjoy!
What's next, Apple, building Windows key support into iTunes and forcing Mac users to use a mapped function key on their Mac keyboards?"