We love our iPads. We love our iPods and we love Ellen. But Apple... Really?  Another example of Apple getting touchy.  I mean Really?

Ellen DeGeneres made the mistake this week of apologizing to Apple for an iPhone commercial parody that aired on her talk show – a mea culpa apparently spurred by the company's reaction to the piece.  She went on to declare, "I love my iPad. I love my iPod. I love IHOP, if you have anything to do with that" and apologized to "everybody at Apple – Steve Jobs, Mr. McIntosh."

"I got in trouble," Ellene said. "The people at Apple didn’t think it was so funny."

"I thought it was funny," she added. "They thought that I made it look like it was hard to use.

"It's not hard to use."

Apple’s role keeps coming into question this week after the mess that spurred lots of jokes: the case of the engineer who lost a new iPhone prototype in a bar.  The device eventually ended up with a tech blogger

Even Jon Stewart of the Daily this week Ranted at Apple's behavior. “Apple, you guys were the rebels, man, the underdogs. People believed in you. But, now, are you becoming the man?” Stewart said. “It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Microsoft was supposed to be the evil one. But now, you guys are busting down doors in Palo Alto while Commandant Gates is ridding the world of mosquitoes!”

Jon Stewart, a big fan of Apple's products, raked Steve Jobs for his Big Brother-ish behavior during the Gizmondo preview iPhone fiasco. "The cop had to bash in the guy's door? Don't they know there's an app for that?"