iPod Touch Bashing Continues
Posted on November 5th, 2007 in Apple, iPod Touch, third-party software |
Yet another addition has been made to the library of iPod Touch bashing reviews. Only I respect this reviewer for being smart enough to review it from two different perspectives, one of how it performs as a run of the mill iPod and another for how it does as a mobile platform device.
As an iPod, he likes it, nay, he loves it, but that’s about as far as the love goes. As a mobile platform, he isn’t much of a fan thanks to all the crippling Apple did to both the OS and the Safari browser.
He says Safari is already a pretty crappy browser, and subtracting features from it, such key features and saving pages for offline viewing, when you can only connect where there is WiFi, and the lack of any password management makes it an even worse browser. The lack of access to the shrunken version of OS X is another big issue for him too, because you don’t actually have access to any of the features you would in OSX, so really the only thing that is remotely the same is maybe the kernel the two OS’s are based on.
iPod touch – Nice device, shame Apple crippled it [via zdnet]
Written by: James Allan Brady
7 Responses
If people would stop reviewing the stock iPod Touch and instead review one fully hacked with all the iPhone apps, you would see many happy people. Not everyone wants an iPhone on the lousy ATT Network running on the trailing EDGE technology. When they make an iPhone 2.0 on a decent network (Verizon or Sprint) with voice dialing and the size of a iPod Touch or a small Blackberry Pearl, then we would have a killer device. Of course, someone needs to solve the crappy keyboard problem…but I digress.
Touch is great and such a super cool small computer…especially when properly modified.
I ignore the whiners and embrace the people who take action and take a half baked device and make it great!!!
It could use a copy/paste feature. I’d like that. But other than that and the lack of memory…with the hacking program (jailbreak) the iPod touch is a pretty sweet device. Any idea when Apple is coming out with a new software update for touch? Or a brand new line of iPods would be sweet too!
@Tim, a new line of iPods is quite a way off. The new line at the moment is still pretty… well, new!
Whoa. Not another reviewer ‘bashing’ the iPod Touch?
It’s these headlines I keep seeing in Google News over and over. No one hates the iPod. No one hates the software or the functionality of the touch screen. Everyone has beef with the sparse functionality that Apple left the initial users with.
But, like ‘rab’ said, a jailbreak’d one means happy, happy users.
There is very little that mine can’t do. And before someone says, “Yeah, but you would try to justify it; you paid so much for it.”, I can turn this thing back in no-questions-asked for the next 90 days, but I haven’t found a reason to.
Surfing the web, watching YouTube, in-putting in my calendar, editing my contacts, IMing anyone I choose, finding ‘hidden’ open networks, playing the occasional Nintendo game, writing and then emailing notes, homebrew games like “Tap Tap Revolution”, Google Maps, e-Books, Weather, and the ability to install and customize anything that comes out by some of thee most brilliant minds in the underground pocket-computing world… (take a breath)
This thing rocks. And anyone who doesn’t think so either can’t scrounge up the cash to get one, doesn’t know how/doesn’t want to modify it, or is just uninterested in any pocket-based computing at all.
My 2 cents.
I jailbroke my iTouch and wasn’t too happy with the results so I just (this morning) restored it. I LOVED adding to the calendar and other stuff was cool but I had a lot of trouble with it freezing, returning to the home screen on it’s own and getting slow. I’m going to wait either until apple makes it’s own updates, or the ones that are out there get better.
Also I never was able to get notes, maps, or mail on the touch through wifi. I admit, I wasn’t going to do it if it wasn’t simple.
Well, restricting the internet capabilities is Apple doing three things:
1. Keeping their iPhone sales fresh with their AT&T partnership
2. Trying to make the most user-friendly interface for a portable device
3. Apple keeping true to their world that the iPod touch is still just an iPod
Apple keeping true to their WORD that it still an iPod.
Sorry for misspelling and double post.