Apple iPod touch: Where's My Mail?

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[bluebomberman]

Damn, who let the trolls out on that blog? The comments section is full of Apple jerk fanboys.

It's actually a fair question: why no mail app? I don't see a technical reason why it's not there.

I guess email services will eventually design iPhone/iPod touch webmail interfaces to compensate.

[Shoesy]

Weird huh- I might not buy an ipod touch because of the no mail situatiion- obviously you can use webmail, but generally it would suck compared to a properly designed for ipod application.

I guess it's me they want to buy an iphone- with no progress on one for the uk market yet tho you would think they would be keen to get me on board with a new ipod touch instead.

ps- anyone wanna buy a mildy scratched 30gb ipod with video?

Didn't think so :(

[prechrchet]

Yeah, this is likely to keep me from getting one, unless they add it on later. I kinda need a PDA, including email, but I simply do not have the money for an iPhone.

Anyone want to guess at the odds that Apple will fix this before I get myself a Xmas present?

[funkychunkz]

Yeah, this is likely to keep me from getting one, unless they add it on later. I kinda need a PDA, including email, but I simply do not have the money for an iPhone.

Anyone want to guess at the odds that Apple will fix this before I get myself a Xmas present?

I doubt Apple will see this as a problem- they could have put the mail app on there quite easily since the ipod touch is so similar software/harware-wise that it would have been a matter of copying the iphone program to the installer. (please correct me if I'm wrong)

However wrong it seems, It's only a matter of time before we see someone who's copied the the non hardware-dependant iphone feature set and made it availible on the ipod touch for everyone to use. Programs like weather, maps and email will probably just become another 'hack' to put on your ipod. So odds are slim that Apple will do anything, odds of it becoming availible I'd say are fairly high.

[CEAbiscuit]

I bought an 8 gig iPhone tonite because the iPod touch does not have mail. Good chance i'll be canceling the AT&T service too. Hoping to rely on open wireless networks.

The mail synching is very nice on the iPhone. It even imported all of my pop mail accounts during set up.

[madmaxmedia]

Remember the Gizmodo post about how the OS is the same in both, and how they even run the same binaries? (which I would have guessed before anyway.)

It should be a piece of cake to copy/hack over Mail to the Touch. It's going to be one of the first things hackers go after when the Touch is released.

[bluebomberman]

Right, but actually obtaining the binaries is going to be a bit troublesome. It's one thing to whip up your own hackware, it's quite another to take Apple's iPhone programs and offer them for download. Apple legal will probably be all over that.

You'd probably have to resort to torrenting it, but that has a level of sketchiness (who knows how the program's been modified?) I'm not comfortable with. (Ever since a friend of mine had his computer break down from downloading antivirus software, I've stayed away from torrenting software.)

Maybe I'm just a wuss. Either way, I'm going to hold out with my Treo 700p a little longer.

[madmaxmedia]

There is some degree of risk, so it depends on your comfort level with this kind of stuff (to me personally it's nothing, but most general users won't bother.)

But the binary is probably not large, and people will also be putting it up on rapidshare, sites like that.


Right, but actually obtaining the binaries is going to be a bit troublesome. It's one thing to whip up your own hackware, it's quite another to take Apple's iPhone programs and offer them for download. Apple legal will probably be all over that.

You'd probably have to resort to torrenting it, but that has a level of sketchiness (who knows how the program's been modified?) I'm not comfortable with. (Ever since a friend of mine had his computer break down from downloading antivirus software, I've stayed away from torrenting software.)

Maybe I'm just a wuss. Either way, I'm going to hold out with my Treo 700p a little longer.