Comments on: iPod Touch: Cover Flow, No Cover Story

By: cms

cms — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:49:25 +0000

It is a bit suboptimal the way previously useful Phone/ PIM functionality like contacts, calendaring , SMS are migrating away from their previous places in OS X / bluetooth and into iTunes, presumably because that’s easierto manage than porting iCal / iSync to Windows.

I’m with you on the iPod touch though. Of course, if you live in a country where the 3G is plentiful, and the contract smart-phones are heavily subsidised, you can easily pair the iPod with a handset and data tariff of your own choosing, as I recently blogged – giving you most of the benefits of the 3G Jesus phone, with marginally more freedom of choice, at least with regards to phone contracts. I think it’s perhaps a better tablet than the phone model.

By: dannyobrien

dannyobrien — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:57:04 +0000

Marc – yeah, I’m a fool for not thinking that they’re trying to avoid an embrace-and-extend project on the M’soft side, but the timing is odd for that. I don’t actually know of any iTunes competitors in the Windows space yet. The fact that they added the hash, then changed the hash again when the only real user of it are the Linux apps (AFAIK) seems like it’s just control freakery for the sake of it. Which, of course, Steve Jobs would never ever stoop to…

By: Julian Bond

Julian Bond — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:54:58 +0000

Where’s the iTouch 160Gb? One day I’ll want to replace my 160Gb classic and I really need all that space. And I find it hard to understand why the iTouch API is as locked down as the iPhone’s. Shouldn’t there be an iTouch that has a mic and will run Skype over wifi? Oh. Wait.

And yes, you’re absolutely right, the relentless fiddling to try and ensure lock-in sucks. Really.

But mostly, where the hell is the competition? Nobody else makes a PMP >80Gb unless you want a no-name brick with a 2.5″ hard drive. Nobody else makes a cheapish PDA that’s as shiny, shiny.

By: M-.-n

M-.-n — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:35:51 +0000

First of all, congratulation for your blog, this is my comment but I’ve been lurking for a little while and really enjoy it.

In my opinion, it seems pretty normal they will bind EVERYTHING to iTunes since it’s the only foot they have in the microsoft pie. Start with buying an iPod, huh, now gotta install iTunes.. ho, you wanna stay up to date ? put automated updated.. mmm, now it does want to install safari. Safari on a PC ???? WTF ? If that is not a way to get the worm in the apple.

I do have very mixed feeling about the iPhone/iTouchMySelf. For one, Apple is too clever at mind games and bringing people to desire stuff they don’t really need. Then I kind of hate the way people want iPhones and will fork a very substantial amount of money without even thinking if they need it, or what could be a USEFUL application they could run on it. On the other hand you gotta give props on the nice piece of engineering…

Still, I do enjoy my EEE a lot.

Regards,
Marc