How do you say/type iPod touch?

[iParis]

Well here's what I think:
It's iPod touch​ peopl​e,​ get it throu​gh your head.​
Come on now, say it with me; i-​po-d-​to-​u-​ch.​
You would​n'​t say iClas​sic,​ or iNano​,​ or iAir,​ or iTV (as I saw a poster say in a previous thread).
What the hell does that even mean?​!​
iTouc​h.​.​.​ littl​e boys.​.​.​.​
iTouc​h.​.​.​ little girls.​.​.​.​
iTouc​h.​.​.​ mysel​f.​.​.​.​

LADIE​S AND GENTL​EMEN.​.​.​.​ I give you.​.​.​ the real iTouc​h.​
http://en.pasen.it/product_detail.php?id=36
http://en.pasen.it/product_detail.php?id=32
http://en.pasen.it/product_detail.php?id=23

I hope this will make all of you think​ befor​e sayin​g iTouc​h again​.​

It's really your choice, but there's no need to abbreviate for Pete's sake, it's only 3 extra letters.
Nobody's going to make you say it right, that's your choice. It's just really annoying.
I don't care if you say Touch a few times if you're doing a long paragraph or conversation about it.

[telf22]

I call it the iTdoesntmatterwhatpeoplecallit

[gibbz]

Agreed, iTouch is annoying as hell. The darn thing is an iPod touch. That or touch seems acceptable. Does it matter? No. Is it annoying to hear people try to invent some other name for it? Yes.

[iParis]

Agreed, iTouch is annoying as hell. The darn thing is an iPod touch. That or touch seems acceptable. Does it matter? No. Is it annoying to hear people try to invent some other name for it? Yes.

Thank you!
Yes, I agree, if you don't feel like saying iPod touch then say Touch.

[njguyfla]

Call it whatever you want and let others call it whatever they want

call it an iRose for all I care. :eek:

[mavis]

It's called an iPod touch, and that's how I always refer to it these days. But here at MacRumors I usually call it an iTouch, mainly because I think it's silly that people get so worked up about it. ;)

[macchappy]

Thank you!
Yes, I agree, if you don't feel like saying iPod touch then say Touch.

Exactly. It's not like people call other iPods iNanos, iClassics, or iShuffles.

[JeffTL]

I call it either an iPod or a PDA.

[puckhead193]

Agreed, iTouch is annoying as hell. The darn thing is an iPod touch. That or touch seems acceptable. Does it matter? No. Is it annoying to hear people try to invent some other name for it? Yes.

yea it pisses me off also when people say "iTouch/itouch" :eek:

[OnTheiTouch2G]

My name must really fry your noodle.

[mavis]

My name must really fry your noodle.Too funny. Between your name and my sig, we ought to get some people's blood pressure right up there ... ;)

[angels lust]

Why do you have 'ipod touch' listed twice?

[iParis]

Why do you have 'ipod touch' listed twice?

Because some people say 'iPod Touch' and some say 'iPod touch.'
The correct way is the second one with the word 'touch' lowercases but many people know that.

[thomahawk]

well i call it itouch for short you know.. but sometimes i say ipod touch. but most of the time i just say "touch" like "you know the touch can do this and that"
but my question is, why does it matter how people say the ipod touch. i think itouch is a better faster way to say. the reason people dont say inano, iclassic, is cuz its got a fast name to do. so people can just say nano or classic. but then again same goes with the ipod touch. which i say touch as well

[andrewag]

Newton :D

[OnTheiTouch2G]

I think I'd also refer to it as "the touch" in everyday conversation. You dont say iNano becasue the nano is an ipod. This gadget seems like much more than an ipod to me.:apple:

[Counterfit]

If you say it, does it really matter if it's "iPod Touch" or "iPod touch"?

[iParis]

I think I'd also refer to it as "the touch" in everyday conversation. You dont say iNano becasue the nano is an ipod. This gadget seems like much more than an ipod to me.:apple:

Does it really matter if it seems like more than an iPod.
That fact remains that it is an iPod.

If you say it, does it really matter if it's "iPod Touch" or "iPod touch"?

Ya, well I suppose it doesn't really matter much if you're talking, but this also applies to typing.

[OnTheiTouch2G]

I'd say it does matter what it seems.

You asked me what I call it, and why.

[iParis]

I'd say it does matter what it seems.

You asked me what I call it, and why.

I know, I was just saying how you could call it a PDA, that's kinda... different, and how you said it seems like more than an iPod. XD

Nevermind, it was someone else who said they call it a PDA.
I was skimming through it and got confused, sorry.

[California King]

Agreed, iTouch is annoying as hell. The darn thing is an iPod touch. That or touch seems acceptable. Does it matter? No. Is it annoying to hear people try to invent some other name for it? Yes.

It's definitely annoying. I find the person who says it usually has nothing intelligent to say and are usually noobs or people who "fink typin like dis is kewl.:apple:"

[iTouch1987]

Maybe people don't feel like typing out "iPod Touch"

I seriously don't see what the big deal is.

If you don't like it, then gouge your eyes out everytime you see it.

You know what's even more annoying than people saying/typing "iTouch"???

People who complain about it.

[sushi]

Does it really matter?

[iParis]

Does it really matter?

Depends on who you are.
To me, yes.
And I wasn't trying to make people say it a certain way, mainly just for survey purposes.
The only reason why I put that rant is because I had already done it for a MySpace bulletin so I just copy and pasted.

[njguyfla]

Does it really matter if it seems like more than an iPod.
That fact remains that it is an iPod.
.

It's not an Ipod it is an iTouch with ipod features.

You can not type on an ipod nor connect to the internet on an ipod.

[Bobioden]

The correct way is the second one with the word 'touch' lowercases but many people know that.


If the correct ways is iPod touch, why do you have iPod Touch in your sig?

[WildCowboy]

We're honestly getting a bit sick of cleaning up the nitpicking over this issue that has taken dozens of threads off-topic. As long as there is no genuine confusion over what the poster means, let it go. Please.

Feel free to vent here in this thread if it will help though. Just keep it in here. :D

[angels lust]

Because some people say 'iPod Touch' and some say 'iPod touch.'
The correct way is the second one with the word 'touch' lowercases but many people know that.

Oh, you mean type not say. Yeah I have a "iPod capital-T-ouch" ;)

[stainlessliquid]

Its annoying slang. The admins should do the world a favor and censor the word "itouch"

It reminds me of when I was a kid and all the old people calling every video game console and video game a "Nintendo." Or using Nintendo as a noun. You cant play a Nintendo and a Sega Genesis is not a Nintendo. Its ignorance due to laziness. Dont be ignorant and say "iTouch", there is no such thing as an iTouch and its not faster to type "iTouch" vs "touch."

It's not an Ipod it is an iTouch with ipod features.

You can not type on an ipod nor connect to the internet on an ipod.
Huh? Yes it is an iPod, its an iPod touch series. Where on the Apple site does it say its not an iPod but an "iTouch"?

[archi17]

I call it an iPod Touch, but who cares what people call it. And i really hate it when people yell at everyone else that calls it an iTouch. Who care, you only get angry because that is how you see everyone else react to it so people feel they should to. But if we all lived in a world where no body have ever heard it called an iTouch before, and no body had heard some body get angry over an iTouch, than if somebody said iTouch, than you would just let it slip over you head. Who cares, just ignore it, you know what they mean.

[localoid]

Its annoying slang. The admins should do the world a favor and censor the word "itouch"...

Yes brother, iTouch is not a word found in the Newspeak Dictionary. And those that use slang are clearly enemies of the State, but if we only censor what these dissidents write or say they'll still be able to think it.

Thought crime should not go unpunished! Yes, internment camps are cheap to build and highly effective but the Ministry of Love's ultimate weapon against these thought criminals is Room 101, for there we can make their brains perfect before we blow them out.

[sushi]

Okay, I have an idea.

Who makes the device in question? Apple.

What do they call it? iPod touch.

Guess that answers the question. We should be saying and writing it as:

iPod touch. :)

[archurban]

hahaha... finally somebody makes me fun today. why is it annoying when people it itouch? do you represent Apple? whatever it is called, it doesn't matter. even I am ridiculous to post like this here.

[4DThinker]

You left a few options off the poll. Both my wife and I have an iPod Touch, and now I've got a 4th gen Nano and she a 3rd gen Nano. So she keeps her hands off myTouch and myNano, and I keep mine off herTouch and herNano. Yet from her point of view, myPods are ourPods. :D

[Tom B.]

iTouch is almost getting as annoying as when people feel the need to put an apostrophe in every plural!

[scotty96LSC]

I don't call it I use it.

[yoyo5280]

iPodo Touch-y

[iParis]

It's not an Ipod it is an iTouch with ipod features.

You can not type on an ipod nor connect to the internet on an ipod.

Wow, I'm surprised only one person has flamed you for that; let me be the next.

Then according to you, people should call the iPod nano, 'iNano' since it has different software and hardware features than the iPod classic?
The iPod touch is and iPod!!!!
It's just a different version of the iPod.
The Apple site says 'iPod touch.'
When Steve Jobs introduced the new iPod touch on Tuesday he didn't say "And now we're going to focus on the iTouch," now did he?
And on the back of the iPod touch it doesn't say 'iTouch' now does it?

If the correct ways is iPod touch, why do you have iPod Touch in your sig?

That's from before I knew it had a lowercase 't.'
I have yet to update it.

[njguyfla]

Only an angry prudish librarian would get mad by the term iTouch.

[njguyfla]

Here's the official iTouch song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQZ_aO4gxTE

[pwn247]

There is no such product as an iTouch. And if there is, it's likely a no-name mockup of the iPod Touch from Apple.

I call it the iPod Touch, with a capital T, because saying "touch" sounds like a) the next word in the sentence, or b) a typo. :p Since you're still writing the title of a product, the T needs to be capitalized.

[KingofAwesome]

I call it a touch, or an iTouch, or whatever I feel like calling it.

To the people having a fit over this: Is it really that much of an issue? Are you sure that your time is worth so little that you have to correct people on the internet? Do you have so little control in the rest of your life that you need to try to exert control over the branding of an Apple product? This is worse than the people who want everyone to call it "GNU/Linux" instead of Linux.

[iParis]

There is no such product as an iTouch. And if there is, it's likely a no-name mockup of the iPod Touch from Apple.

I call it the iPod Touch, with a capital T, because saying "touch" sounds like a) the next word in the sentence, or b) a typo. :p Since you're still writing the title of a product, the T needs to be capitalized.

Actually, you're right and wrong.
There IS a product(s) called the iTouch; and even though they're mockup deviced they are still real products.
3 Different versions; iTouch, iTouch LE, and iTouch SE.
*look at the links I provided in my first post.

[Lesser Evets]

Speech - iPod Touch
Write - iPT, iPod Touch and Touch for variation.

I love watching the nerds get their panties in a twist one way or the other. Viva these inane threads.

[andybno1]

I blame the iPhone for all this arguing over the name lol

my question is, if the iPhone never excisted and the ipod touch was still released would ppl refer to it as an iTouch ................ don't be quick to go of course they would because (and this is my thoughts) I think the iPhone made people start saying iTouch

[mattwolfmatt]

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You can not type on an ipod nor connect to the internet on an ipod.

Umm, yes I can. On the ipod touch.

By your line of thinking, we shouldn't be calling computers "computers" because the original computers did not have sound or a keyboard or a monitor. You couldn't do those things on the original computer, so it can't be called a computer.

[roboius]

I really wish people would stop bleating about the iPod T[t]ouch vs. iTouch thing. You know what they mean. It is more succinct, if not the official name. How come no one cares about grammar and spelling in anything that is not a brand name? Someone correcting there/their in a reply is being a pedant. It is equally puerile to dwell on the use of iTouch. Answer the questions asked, and grow up!

[therealmrbob]

It's not an Ipod it is an iTouch with ipod features.

You can not type on an ipod nor connect to the internet on an ipod.How is it an iTouch? where did that even start?
It's an iPod touch, it would be okay to call it a touch if you're in a forum where everyone knows you're talking about an iPod.

[localoid]

As the debate rages on, the banner ad that often appears at the bottom of the page has all the (keyword) bases covered...

http://web.me.com/localoid/images/itouch-marketing.jpg

[Vigilante]

hahaha... finally somebody makes me fun today. why is it annoying when people it itouch? do you represent Apple? whatever it is called, it doesn't matter. even I am ridiculous to post like this here.
What do you expect from fanboys?

[Gunn003]

...iPod Touch from Apple.

I call it the iPod Touch, with a capital T...

...Since you're still writing the title of a product, the T needs to be capitalized.

Did you not use Ipod instead of iPod because it's the name of a product? No, you typed it the same way Apple does, iPod, which is the same reason why you should use "iPod touch," the same name Apple uses, instead of "iPod Touch."

Good job contradicting yourself.

[kwk1]

I blame the iPhone for all this arguing over the name lol

my question is, if the iPhone never excisted and the ipod touch was still released would ppl refer to it as an iTouch ................ don't be quick to go of course they would because (and this is my thoughts) I think the iPhone made people start saying iTouch

Now you got it Andy!!!

Just what I was thinking too.

Is it just a coincidence that the iPhone and iTouch are extremely iDentical?

[Touchy]

Right on with the "similarity". What the devil is wrong with iTouch, please get over it. If you can "direct" what goes on inside why not with the name? And certainly no need to berate those that differ from your point of view.

[Joeytpg]

It's called an iPod touch, and that's how I always refer to it these days. But here at MacRumors I usually call it an iTouch, mainly because I think it's silly that people get so worked up about it. ;)

+11111

man, there are some REALLY uptight people in this forum.

[exhibit.b]

I paid $300 for it, so I can call it whatever I want. Who really cares anyway?

[mzd]

i generally just call it an iPod. unless i'm on here or talking with someone that cares it is an iPod touch. then i would refer to it as an "iPod touch" or just the "touch" if it is clear we are all talking about iPods.

[omaRR]

being hispanic and talking spanish mostly to everyone i know except when at work or at school i tend to say things like i would in hispanic-land, rather than with an american proper accent. so i say eepod (ee as in meet, or greet, or feet, or cheat, or pete.) and as you may all know atleast one hispanic, we dont make our lives complicated, its an eepod, whether its a touch, or a nano, or a mini, or a classic, or whatever else apple comes out with, its an eepod...

now if we must say touch, its probably tush, as in ( the ush sound as in usher, or lush) so basically we say eepod tush...


omaRR

[iParis]

being hispanic and talking spanish mostly to everyone i know except when at work or at school i tend to say things like i would in hispanic-land, rather than with an american proper accent. so i say eepod (ee as in meet, or greet, or feet, or cheat, or pete.) and as you may all know atleast one hispanic, we dont make our lives complicated, its an eepod, whether its a touch, or a nano, or a mini, or a classic, or whatever else apple comes out with, its an eepod...

now if we must say touch, its probably tush, as in ( the ush sound as in usher, or lush) so basically we say eepod tush...


omaRR

Lol, I don't want to offend you but that's a lot different than what I've been seeing.
YAY for being different!

[njguyfla]

being hispanic and talking spanish mostly to everyone i know except when at work or at school i tend to say things like i would in hispanic-land, rather than with an american proper accent. so i say eepod (ee as in meet, or greet, or feet, or cheat, or pete.) and as you may all know atleast one hispanic, we dont make our lives complicated, its an eepod, whether its a touch, or a nano, or a mini, or a classic, or whatever else apple comes out with, its an eepod...

now if we must say touch, its probably tush, as in ( the ush sound as in usher, or lush) so basically we say eepod tush...


omaRR

eeTush:D

[Darkroom]

Le touch... it's more sexy in french

[katielb]

I write, type and say "iPod touch," but I also say iTouch from time-to-time.