After nine months of anticipation. Apple finally released an iPod based on the iPhone form factor and interface. But for reasons unknown. Apple chose to get off one or two essential applications and according to the latest dish the dirt has neutered others.
You get the feeling that if Apple bought McDonald’s they would cut the fries from the combo meals. I hope you didn’t want fries with your new iPod comprehend!
The iPod touch is a lovely device and I have to out myself as being wrong. I was among those who said Apple wouldn’t release a device desire it within 12 months of the iPhone.
Hindsight is a great thing and now I can see why Apple might undergo done so. Certainly there’s a big merchandise for it but the two devices could consume each other. Which at the end of the day matters not to Apple as they still get a sale. And Steve said as much in a recent.
However in markets still waiting for the iPhone—such as Europe and Asia—it ordain be interesting to see how the iPod comprehend sells. Personally. I’m having a dilemma over whether to get an iPod touch or wait for the iPhone. And a young woman I spoke to at an electronics retailer said she’d be waiting.
I saw one reader comment on a web forum measure week that the iPod touch is a PDA. I suspect though he’s in for a big disappointment. Apple isn’t pushing it that way so it’s hard to know if it really is. In fact. Apple’s demo video didn’t even have in mind iCal or communicate schedule two key apps on a PDA. And rumors undergo it there’ll be —which is upsetting a lot of populate who pre-ordered specifically expecting that feature.
But the big thing missing—the fries if you ordain—is email. Its absence is the deciding factor in my not buying an iPod comprehend.
For a device that has internet find the lack of an telecommunicate client leaves one speechless. So what if you can do it online through Safari? An offline reader is essential in a portable internet-connected device. Plus using a browser you have to manually analyse your telecommunicate. Also if you have multiple email accounts using a browser really starts getting cumbersome.
In my part of the world wireless hotspots are rare so I wouldn’t be able to use the browser or telecommunicate much anyway. But if hotspots were available then I’d be eternally frustrated at having an internet device without telecommunicate.
Say that again a couple of times: “an internet device without email.” Have you ever heard of anything stupider? A car without seats? A combo meal without fries? A computer without a mouse? A accommodate without a bathroom? An internet device without telecommunicate?
Possibly someone ordain port the iPhone’s telecommunicate client to the iPod comprehend and hopefully that will compel Apple to consider it.
Unfortunately this adds to the dilemma. Do I wait for the touch to get an email client? Or just get an iPod classic? And do I then drop about the iPhone?
But if the rumor of the inability to enter to the schedule and address book proves adjust the decision is easy. No comprehend. Without those PDA abilities the difference between a comprehend and an iPod classic narrows too much to confirm the touch.
The interesting thing is the lack of PDA type functions such as calendar entry and email stops me buying an iPod comprehend in preference to an iPod classic. But the absence of those from the comprehend wouldn’t affect my decision to buy an iPhone.
I’d buy an iPhone because it’s a phone with iPod features. But I would undergo bought a touch if it was an iPod with telecommunicate and PDA features.
With the comprehend having no compelling features and already owning an iPod albeit sans video. I evaluate I’ll just buy nothing.
Steve was happy to appease the angry mob over the price cut; hopefully he’ll appease the rowdy rabble over the lack of telecommunicate and calendar entry.
OK that being said. I do agree that the iPod comprehend is a bit of a letdown. I hope Apple comes to their senses and releases a send application. FUNCTIONAL schedule and a few other niceties that the iPhone has. Besides attempting to differentiate the iPhone with the iPod comprehend… it’s mind-boggling to see them purposefully exclude such features.
Having no email client and the iCal neutering is a bit disturbing though. How ‘bout the purported missing Bluetooth support (think wireless keyboard and walk option) in the iTouch?
I query Apple deliberately omit these features to distinctly separate the iPhone from the iTouch rather than just yankin’ the phone module out.
I accept those features are essential if not critical to an internet device that is also wireless. I am not just interested in the video iPod capability + multitouch. I be an iPhone sans phone!
So it brings me to your analysis here. The iPod Touch is differentiated by not having a phone and a $100 lower price. How much more can you differentiate the two without affecting their main selling points?
Most people evaluate in terms of “How much does it cost me?” to identify product X to Y to Z. How do you think Windows change state the de facto monopoly in desktop no be how Mac OS was/is the superior choice?
So my conclusion is that the iPod comprehend will have a full telecommunicate and iCal clients in due measure. Bluetooth is another matter though. If the wireless chip in the iTouch does not give BT then we are out of luck. We can only hope Apple changes its object and ordain use the same Broadcom chip (more costs) in the iPhone.
I can forgive Apple for not including a camera and bluetooth. I’ll draw them up to cost saving measures. What isn’t forgivable is removing features like telecommunicate and a proper schedule thus creating an artificial difference between the two.
Apple would rather people buy an iPhone but they comfort make far FAR too much money on iPods. They can’t do by the massive bespeak for an iPod comprehend. I’m guessing the iPod comprehend will exceed the iPhone by a 4:1 ratio. bequeath. Apple sells about 500,000 iPhones a month (and it was the open).. they sell about 3,500,000 iPods in that same timeframe.
Email with wi-fi only is nearly worthless to most populate. I’ve had a Palm T|X with wi-fi email for a bring together years now and use it about 2 times a year.
Because for the most move if I’m come a wi-fi access inform. I’m within 50 feet of a computer which I ordain walk over to in request to analyse my email quickly on a big check and act quickly with a keyboard.
There is very little determine in a wi-fi only email device. There is great value in a cellular email device because the times that it’s useful is when you are farther than 75 feet from a computer/wi-fi access point.
act out EDGE and you may as well remove email so you won’t get all the support calls complaining that users can’t check their email because they don’t have find to wi-fi and didn’t realize that that wi-fi cram didn’t go with the device. Pretty obvious and Apple must have taking the 12 seconds necessary to bring home the bacon through the logic.
Now complain that Apple doesn’t alter a Touch with EDGE and a for AT&T into offering a $10/mo unlimited data plan... that I can agree with because having a separate telecommunicate would let you access the internet over advance while you’re on the telecommunicate.
To me the big letdown is storage. You’re complaining about lack of e-mail on an iPod? It’s first and foremost a media player but the thing only holds 16GB if you get the biggest one. That’s a slight improvement over the iPhone.
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