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iPod touch: what's missing!
09/06/07
iPod touch: what's missing!
So that new iPod touch that Apple presented today is pretty nifty, isn't it? And Steve's keynote was pretty entertaining too.
Yeah well... there's quite a few missing features (no it's not the Beatles) that itch me... even before I lay down the $399 I will no doubt end up spending on this (nonetheless) beautiful peace of art. And Especially:
Podcasts: yes, so it has WiFi and a browser and an online music store... but what about podcasts? You subscribe to podcast in order to get new episodes when they become available. The least I'd expect from a WiFi enabled portable podcast player is to actually get the episodes of the podcasts I'm subscribed too. Not a single word about that...
...well maybe it is actually there. Maybe Steve just didn't mention it because they haven't found a way to gently rip you off with it, as they're getting ready to do with their iPhone ringtone business! Think about it: you already bought a full length song (at a fairly high price). Now Apple lets you clip out 10 seconds of that song to use as a ring tone. All you have to do is pay another $.99 for those 10 seconds you already have on your iPone! Why exactly did people applause to that?
Email: can you name one single good reason why this thing doesn't include a POP3/IMAP mail client? Does Apple's partnership with Google go so far they're going to encourage us to use Gmail instead?
And by the way, if Google rules, where's the Google maps application?
Edit: The new $20 iPod Touch upgrade finally addresses that!
Games: Steve proudly showed off the games on the new iPod nano. What about the iPod touch? Can I play all the games I purchased for my iPod "classic" on my soon to be iPod touch? Odds look pretty bad...
PDA features: This device now clearly has the capabilities of a top of the line PDA. It just lacks some software to do it right. Todo lists, anyone? Can you at least edit your calendar and contacts on the go? You couldn't do it with the previous iPods and Steve didn't mention it. It would be odd not to be able to do it, but then again, the software on this one is so trimmed down compared to the iPhone that I'm a little scared...
Edit: you can now edit calendar and contents in version 1.1.2.
Now of course, what I should really do is get an iPhone... Especially at the new $399 price! Yeah... if only they were available in Europe... (fingers crossed for Apple Expo Paris this September).
Camera: Actually, now the iPhone is just $100 more than the iPod, does it really make sense not to have a camera built into the high-end iPod? ... well, that would make it a killer blogger tool for sure. And again, the iPhone is *not* available everywhere, not even in certain regions of the US where there is no AT&T coverage...
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I understand the interest for the consumer, but for now there in no interest for Apple.
That's simply why some functions are missing,
There is no good reason to me for not putting all the non GSM/EDGE related features into the iPod touch, which again, only costs a little less.
Besides that, the iPhone is not available everywhere, so it makes sense to have a device with everything but the cellular capabilities.
Finally, I do believe Apple is in the business of *not* pissing off their customers :>
I assume you know something about how mobile phones and their costings work.
Do try to remember that the price you are quoting for the iphone includes a 24 month contract, where as the iPod touch doesn't
AN
iPod
TOUCH!!!!!
be jealous they rule
They'd getting widgets soon fee the pods that u can just download to it YEEEREEeEE
You can download most of the popular iphone apps straight to your ipod touch:
* notes
* weather
* google maps
* stocks
Simply jailbreak your ipod touch (surf to www.jailbreakme.com from within safari).
Then open installer and add "http://repo.us.to" to the sources.
Then you can download all these apps right from your ipod touch (assuming you're in a wifi hotspot). Really easy to do - I did mine yesterday.
apple needs to get up on those missing apps though.
ur pod? y do they care any way?
losing control. Its they same story with the pap, homebrew became big and Sony spent moreoney trying to stop the homebrew instead of developing new features. I'll just say hold off on jailbreaking for a while and give apple a chance before over riding their efforts to create an even more awesome pocket electronic. I'm also typing this on an iPod touch, and it was worth every penny and a huge upgrade from my last pocket gadget, the somy psp. Great job apple!
( got it for hanukah)
I love it
hut I do think that apple should have put more applications on the Ipod touch
Are you able to download webaps from the apple website?
also where did you get the upgrades ( mine came with the version 1.1.2 but I'd like to know for future refrences )
I hope that apple does not do what Sony did by making it were you have to by a camera separate that only works that system. I just hope that apple works It all out-................•••••••
1.download ziphone 2.5(you need .net framework 2.0)
2.unzip folder
3.connect ipod
4.on left hand side click "jailbreak"
5. add games
Okay, here's the deal with games. The reason why there are none yet by professional developers is because Apple has not released the SDK. However, it's obvious that once released there are not merely going to be just some casual games, as there are for the standard iPods. These are going to be fully developed games that are going to make the iPhone/Touch a contender in the handheld market.
For example, EA has announced that Spore is going to be released on the iPhone/Touch in September. It also has suggested that a slew of other games are going to be released.
Given the incredible amount of power packed into these sleek devices (including a very nice graphics processor) compared to the PSP and DS, it's no wonder that Apple is going to try to develop these products as handheld gaming devices.
So fellow iPhone/Touch owners, fret not. You probably are holding what will be considered the most advanced handheld gaming system yet developed.
If you don't understand that sentence - buy yourself an ipod. For those those of you who are enlightened - you know what to do...
I just set mine up, it defaults to SSL
so if your server doesn't use SSL, be
sure to change the port in the settings
to Port 25. Works like a charm.
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