ShoppingiPod Touch: Apple weakest link in Product Line
The iPod Touch is a nice product, a touch screen, an easy to follow navegation system, a good piece of hardware marvel, but it is not an iPod nor an iPhone and the reasons for its introduction are unknown.
Let’s put it straight:
If your primary need is to listen music, jog and travel light, then the ipod touch is not what you need. Listen music is not the ipod touch principal function, it is very difficult to change from song to song without looking to the device and holding it in your hands is another story. It is made to be seen and the navegation when compare with the ipod is a disaster. Ok, we all like the touchscreen, but try to run 1 mile and at the same time try changing just ONE song… it it impossible. With the original ipod it is a matter of moving your fingers around and done. Touchscreen is just one thing and usability is other. You can run, but you can’t hide it.
Capacity
While the main feature of the ipods have been music playing and recently, videos and movies playing, the ipod touch brings only a fraction of excitement, it has just 32 gigabytes for $499 compare to the ipod Classic 160GB for $350. While you won’t be able to enjoy 20 thousand songs at once, now that you have an ipod why not fill it up with tones of music?
iPod Touch is not an iPhone
Another little drawback for the iPod Touch is that it is an iPhone without the phone, it is a nice Portable Media Player and if I were in charge of the iPod Touch production (with my respect for all of them) I will make bigger the screen and create another device with the iPod features but intended to Movie playing, strip the ipod name out and market it as the most versatile PMP on the market, touchscreen, gps, 10 hours of movies and video playing and 24 hours of music playing, wireless broadcast for your wireless speakers and AppleTV and automatic mac and pc syncing (wireless too).
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