Today, Apple introduced the iPod Touch. It’s essentially an iPhone without the phone part, and without the speakers and built-in microphone. $299 buys you an 8GB sytem, complete with all the iPhone-like touchy goodness you’ve come to know and want. $399 buys you a 16 GB model with the same embarrassing name.
The iTouch includes built-in WiFi so you can use Safari and YouTube on-the-go as well as make purchases from the iTunes Store. (the iPhone will offer the same ability later this month). Its main button bar offers direct access to Music (great icon), Videos (ugly icon) and Photos (same old icon), as well as the new iTunes WiFi store.
For all the folks who think this is so important you have to drag other Posts off-topic, here’s your sandbox!
Aside from everything else and the jokes I don’t know if is just me but I smile to myself every time I think of the name ‘iTouch’, does anyone else think this way?
At first I thought it was a joke name – like iTouch(myself). Maybe Apple is planning to use the Divinyls hit “I touch Myself” for the advertising campaign…yeah? If so you heard it here first. 😀
Cheers
After owning this thread, Jobs comes out and gives all the early adopters a credit.
And idiots like Pedro and Greg wonder why people fall in love with Apple.
Just because I owned both of you is no reason to get pissy. It is a good reason to stop talking about technology, because neither of you know shit about the topic.
Hill: as my ancestors said, and loosely translated:
The seed of the tongue is the hardest harvest.
#72,
To recap, I predicted a day before the announcement that Apple was gonna release a phoneless iPhone because the iPhone sales have been crap and they need to recoup some of their 10 billion dollar investment in the platform. I also predicted they they would begin to phase out the platform. Both of those predictions turned out to be exactly correct. Numerous wall street analyst agree with my reading of the situation(A number go further and now suggest the 8gb iPhone sold at $400 is being sold as a loss leader, exactly like the Zune).
After the announcement, the early adopters exclaimed “Hey this is bs we didn’t get our moneys worth!” And Jobs had to refund them some of their money.
A decision which you attempt to spin as some sort of victory for Apple.
Bwhahaha!!! Yes you and Apple did indeed with this particular round. Lol, so this is what it feels like to be humbled. ROFL… I hope I lose more arguments to you. Bwhahahahaha! Good game. Good game indeed!
GregA –
…shouldn’t you be getting back to the library?
With it’s built in browser (let’s call it Safar for lack of feature completeness), can the iPod touch download an MP3 from the web?
I mean, it has 16GB of storage. This is no problem, right? PLEEENNTY of room.
I bought the iPhone and learned the hard way about this.
The iPhone doesn’t support downloads. Sure it will stream an MP3, so it knows what one is and it knows how to play it from a website. You cannot save the mp3, even though you are holding an mp3 player in your hands.
To add salt to the wound, my friend emailed me an MP3 as an attachment. I had a POP email account setup on the iPod, and it SEES the MP3 attachment.
Here is where it gets stinky. The iPhone WON’T ACKNOWLEDGE it. This has to be a choice by apple to disable this feature since the device knows how to play MP3s when it feels like it.
Nobody seems to want to talk about this crippled feature of Apples new products so I am here to let everybody know.
Can anybody confirm this is still the case with the new iPod before I go and pick one up?
I’m bummed out about the broken web browser on the new apple phones/ipods.