Why is everyone complaining that there's no camera, or no GPS, or no whatever? Apple will not add a camera or GPS to the iPod Touch; they don't want it to get too close to the iPhone in features. The iPod Touch isn't meant to do all the things the iPhone does like camera and GPS, it's supposed to be an iPod and a apps and games device. Why would you need GPS anyway? You would have to be connected to WiFi to get directions, and if you're using GPS to go somewhere, you aren't likely to find WiFi hotspots everywhere.
It's supposed to be an ipod (?), apps (mostly gimmicks, mostly 3rd party, mostly costly) and a games device (whatever the keynote said, urrrrr)?
It's a good thing for us that it's purposely limited so it doesn't effect the sales of their other products?
It's a shame most people don't know that there's 4 year old pdas, wrapped in nice black magnesium cases with discrete graphics that can do play mp3s with artwork, run all sorts of 3rd party apps and 3d games and also do divx/xvid/dvds/h264, 'full' web browsing, gps, voip, bluetooth, ad2p, sd/cf expansion, removable batteries, office apps, 4.7" sony(eww) screens with twice the res of the itouch etcetcetcetc. Maybe they'd question the prices/features/limitations of some of these 'revolutionary' products a little more and we'd all end up happier. There is competition, even if it's a relatively(massively) small, dying and unadvertised market.
It's a shame there isn't even more complaining and whining about countless issues, much more fun and more productive(?!) than blindly assuming everything they're doing with this line is good. The responses can be a great giggle too.
It's a shame there's no potential in the current touch for apples take on road navigation software. With all the storage and their distribution, it would be pretty easy for them to add all sorts of road maps, air/sea charts, OS(uk), compasses, speedo/g/velocity meters etcetc - I'd love to see what they could do, apps like tomtom/igo etc are brilliant and shoddy at the same time.
It's a shame that half the itouch posts seem to be crying out for a gps receiver (I'd even buy into it, trusting the software would come later) while the other half can't tell the difference between gps and a dot on google maps (a mobile app that was about way before the iphone existed). Funnily enough I know that wifi doesn't work in the middle of nowhere - the only interest I have in random hotspots while driving is the potential for 100000s of itouch/phone/whatever users to be telling the internet average speeds/traffic jams etc.
It's a shame the one feature I wanted for an excuse to buy an ipod wasn't included. I didn't get what I wanted, which means that the product (line) sucks, obviously.
enough random offtopicish babble from me
and what they do for the technology industry but how can they possibly afford to lead the media on like this? This was not only not revolutionary it barely warranted an under the radar release let alone a big scale event. Computer technology is drastically lagging!!
