Considering the memory is soldered onto the Touchs (sp?) mainboard I gather that would be pretty freaking difficult. Repeat after me: The iPod Touch isn't a SSD.
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Apple Announces 16GB iPhone and 32GB iPod Touch
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Considering the memory is soldered onto the Touchs (sp?) mainboard I gather that would be pretty freaking difficult. Repeat after me: The iPod Touch isn't a SSD.
Sorry, but if you can't tell there's a huge difference between my beef and your example, then you obviously haven't understood anything about this.
This is a feature that practically any other flash-device out there have. A feature any other iPod has. It's a feature many people use. It's a feature they have put effort into removing. It's not like asking them to support DRM'd WMA.
I tell you where the complaining is going to get me: It's going to inform people that it is impossible to use this thing to put a document onto. That it's impossible to use for portable apps, that it's impossible to use as any other iPod have been capable of.
The complaining is making this feature-removal more well known, as I am certain I am not the only one having used this basic feature for years and years. Do a search on google on "disk mode" and "ipod Touch" (or "itouch") if you don't believe it's a feature that is commonly used.
Further, if you think I should just eat what ever they serve, because it is "futile", it's no wonder they put out such a product*–*You seem to be one of the people who doesn't matter if they cripple the thing. As long as you get to hand them your money.
To me, there's a clear line how much the OS can outweigh the crippling.
Edit: I asked myself the question you pose. The thing is, are we talking about the designed purpose (including the crippling)?
If so, no.
But in real life, as in "does removing disk mode from a flash storage device affect the main purpose and usability in a major way?" I'd give you a resounding YES!
Obviously they have to update. And they will. I just take issue with the notion that they aren't taken seriously now and that the threshold is some future update.
I kept saying I'd buy one (iPod Touch) when it got to at least 30gb, but at $500 I think I'll have to wait a bit longer. The price to usefulness ratio is a bit out of whack for me, I just can't justify paying so much for so little. Hopefully memory prices will continue to drop and the iPod Touch finds a reasonable price point.
299 for a 16 gig iPod touch? Hahahaha keep dreaming. Well, at least until September rolls along. But I still don't think it will go that low for some time.
While I can't say I care for the tone of your post, I agree that I disc mode is important. In fact, that is one of the things that tips my aforementioned usefulness ratio way into the red
Well, sorry about the tone. I just don't like being told (in a condescending way, no less), that my beef with removal of a feature is "futile" and that I basically should shut up, because it's how Apple "intended it". That's what get my piss boiling.
Well now, I didn't say "that makes sense, I'm going out right now to buy a 32GB iPod Touch" now did I? As it stands I'm still waiting it out. Certainly not going to pay $499.
The first part is a decent point, but your analogy in the second part I believe is off. Has Apple ever supported SLI/Crossfire? No, these are new technologies correct? Disk mode is not new and Apple has had disk mode available in previous iPods.
I can not put into words how PISSED I am at Apple right now. Now my 8GB touch, which I got for Chirstmas less than 6-7 weeks ago is basically.... S**t.
THANK YOU SO MUCH APPLE
if you had bought the 16Gb as I did, You'd be only 1/2 pissed?????. Why are you mad, you bought what you could afford,(you didn't buy the 16GB),you still have what you wanted, and were in love with, until a 32 GB came out .
Gimme-gimme-gimme, chill, be happy with the choice you made and go listen to some tunes on your sharp i-pod Touch. Sheesh!
No worries Tosser!
From Apple's standpoint I can understand them not wanting people to be able to hack their products, but from my standpoint as a customer forking over $ I think Apple could find a workaround as you said to keep their OS secure while still allowing disk mode.
You wouldn't have responded to this post if you saw my post I made after that one.
It's okay tho, I forgive you, Cheffy DaveOKAY
I take back everything I just said.
My dad emailed me the story and he said Apple got rid of the 8GB model. My Dad got the story wrong.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
I guess I should've read the article first
God, I feel like such an arse right now.
Hah, the 32GB iPt is plastered all over the UK iPod site, but not actually in the store.... wtf...
There's a £60 difference between the £199 8GB and £69 16GB... I'm thinking the 32GB will again be an extra £60, at £329.
There's a £60 difference between the £199 8GB and £69 16GB... I'm thinking the 32GB will again be an extra £60, at £329.
That's all I was getting at. The articles should be saying that 28% of all smartphones sold last quarter were iPhones, not that the iPhone has a 28% marketshare for last quarter. I know, it's a nitpick, but it's always bugged me.
Still, I do think it's a fantastic number. That 1/4 of all smartphones currently being sold are iPhones is a pretty amazing stat for a brand new device.
Yes, like any other manufacturer and like on any other iPod.
But even so, that isn't the reason apple did it. I am quite sure they are capable of programming this stuff in a fashion so it "just works". They have shown they can do it. And that is what annoys the hell out of me: They have crippled it by design so one has to use iTunes. Now, what if I want to save a document from my friends computer, and internet café computer or what have you, and bring it home with me? Yes, I need to use another device.
Even my slim 80MB (yes, it's not a typo) SGX-800 Samsung cell phone can have documents copied to it. But not this 500$-flash drive/music player.
I know. I could only imagine what it would have been like it Apple opened it up to other cell phone networks and not just AT&T. They would have sold even more of them because people would have been able to get the services they love with the iPhone.
Jeez tell me about it, I'm still saving for a touch! Be thankful for what you have, btw I really like my nano even though it has a tilted screen.
Hah, the 32GB iPt is plastered all over the UK iPod site, but not actually in the store.... wtf...
There's a £60 difference between the £199 8GB and £69 16GB... I'm thinking the 32GB will again be an extra £60, at £329.
Add to that the top iPhone is the same price as the top Touch. And the iPhone being £329 it is pretty certain it will be £329 for the 32GB Touch.
In order to unlock the phone so it will work in the 134 countries in which it is not supported, you first have to be able to jail break it!