Well, that was short-lived
Posted on 04 October 2007
My iPod Touch is going back. I’m not happy.
I suppose I should have read more reviews on the device, but I’d pre-ordered it the day it was announced, because I’d been wanting an iPhone for months. And not for the phone. So it didn’t think to read more on it. I just waited patiently for my new toy to arrive.
When I ordered it, my only disappointment was the lack of a camera, but I figured I could live without it. What I really wanted was a music-enabled PDA — something I could carry my calendar around on, take some notes, read some PDF files, etc. That’s what I thought I was buying.
Unfortunately, Apple has decided that the iPod Touch is to be a very expensive iPod, (the Canadian iPod Touch is $50 more than a US iPhone, and comes with only 16GB of storage, when comparing it to other iPods), and not much else. You can carry your calendar, but it is read-only. You can’t mount the device as a disk to copy files to it, and if you could, the software to read PDF apparently is not on the device (or so the oracle tells me). There is no means to enter a note, unless it is into a web form on a website, which is woefully inadequate for a device that has only WiFi internet.
I switched to Macs two years ago. I love them. They just work. And, more times than not, they exceed my expectations. What the hell happened with the iPod Touch?
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