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iPod touch Apple Cripples iPod Touch Calendar

I just wrote Apple and told them that this is seriously making me consider cancelling my order. I told them that it is unacceptable to advertize a product, allow people to put money down on it, and then change said product to something different than what was advertized after receiving money.


This really makes me mad.
 
Apple will make money with current technology
until a bigger hard drive is available for the iphone.

Once apple have their money in place and the new hard drive is released
the ipod will just slowly start fading away.

I mean look at the ipod touch and the iphone...

Is it just me or does the ipod touch does not seem like a good buy?

I think apple wants to make money by selling you all new "ipods" but on their agenda the iphone is the future....theres no possible way apple can sit on the ipod for decades to come and not evolve it at all..

THE IPHONE IS THE FUTURE..

Imagine an ipod with 160gb capacity and phone functions?
come on it is so obvious of what apple is doing
their just waiting and making money..i mean no company will just sit back and not juice its fanbase.....
 
ksolano said:
Holy cow, first they said yes, now they say no!?
WTF?? can anyone give us any serious answers? will we be able to input data into the ical app?
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MMMM, could it be that they opted not to allow this because of the release in a month of Leopard and the new Mail and iCal...

Why turn something on that will be discarded in a month?
 
uNext said:
THE IPHONE IS THE FUTURE..
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Its only part of the future. The iPod is here to stay. For those who don't want a phone in their iPod, how is the iPhone the future? That reasoning doesn't make sense.

I am an iPhone owner, and I can absolutely 100% see why people would be pissed that the calendar app on the Touch isn't fully functioning. Its a big omission. There is no reason to limit features, at least no valid reason, from a customer stand point. If its going to hurt Apple's bottom line ($$$), that is the only thing that makes sense.

For all those saying that the iPod is a music device, media device, entertainment device, etc, then why bother with the extras at all?? Why bother putting contacts, calendar, etc in there at all?

The only other possibility is that they are developing a better calendar app and its not ready yet. But that seems highly unlikely.
 
They may be just trying to seperate one product from another, but the bottom line is it is going to cost them sales. The sad thing is, it wouldn't have cost them anything to just leave it in. I doubt very many people are going to get an iPhone instead of a touch in order to get this, but many people might have purchased a touch if it did have some PDA capabilities that now won't. And it's a seperate thing, but how many people have been waiting to replace their current ipod but now won't because of the memory. Sometimes you have to wonder what Apple is thinking, or maybe they are happy with the sales they have now.
 
paymaster said:
They may be just trying to seperate one product from another, but the bottom line is it is going to cost them sales. The sad thing is, it wouldn't have cost them anything to just leave it in. I doubt very many people are going to get an iPhone instead of a touch in order to get this, but many people might have purchased a touch that now won't if it did have some PDA capabilities.
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It might at the start....which is not a bad thing since it will be hard to meet the demand. A couple of weeks after shipment has started and people figure out a way to add same applications that iphone had people will jump back on board.
 
I hope you don't consider yourself a "loyal customer", a "loyal customer" would never ever own a PC:rolleyes:.

jcnyc said:
...Give me a break. Apple makes great products which is why I switched from a PC to a MBP. But steve, your loyal customers have helped get you where you are today so stop being...
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It really is complete crap. The "just get an iPhone/it's just an iPod" thing is bogus. All I wanted was an iPhone that WASN'T a phone. I don't complain about lack of a mic, lack of a built-in speaker, or any of that. But seriously, i'm not paying extra cash, and signing up to pay AT&T God knows how much cash a month just to be able to enter items in iCal. Just because it isn't an iPhone doesn't mean that it should be for entertainment only. If it was just entertainment only, I would buy an iPod classic and call it a day. A click wheel is perfect for that. It is useless to build in all of the awesome interface features just so that you can add in Safari and iTunes wireless downloads.

Semi-anger here...but hoping for a reversal and/or hacking just so I can add calendar events.

P.S. - Anyone know if we can add address contacts??
 
There's no todo list on the iPhone, either

MacRumorUser said:
We ordered one with the intention of at least being able to access and change calender / todo lits etc, and sync with ical & addressbook whilst on the move.
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Well, you can sync with iCal and Address Book, and you can access your calendar, but there is no todo list functionality on the iPhone or the iPod touch. None at all. We'll have to wait and see if Leopard's release in October fixes that for the iPhone and whether any Leopard features trickle down to the iPod touch.
 
Who uses an offline calendar today?

Who uses an offline calendar today if you can surf*/** to your favorite online calendar, sync it when you're at home and then finally watch it on your iPod***, that's really amazing! It totally, completely replaces the pencil (yuck!) and the paper.

* wireless connection needed, may not be available everywhere
** extra costs may apply (but who cares, you just paid $300/$400 for an iPod)
*** batteries not replaceable

Think different!

Did that sound familiar to you guys? It's the same stupid way of thinking when Steve said burning DVDs and sending them to grandma is history. Like everyone, including grandma, has broadband internet.
 
Redneck1089 said:
I just wrote Apple and told them that this is seriously making me consider cancelling my order. I told them that it is unacceptable to advertize a product, allow people to put money down on it, and then change said product to something different than what was advertized after receiving money.


This really makes me mad.
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I hope you used spell check when you wrote Apple a letter......
 
awmazz said:
I predict it will outsell the iPhone by Christmas and Apple will revitalize and dominate a whole new PDA market just as they did with the mp3 player market. But only if they release the SDK with Leopard.
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That would be nice. :)

Still use my Newton at home. Still amazed at it's capabilities, especially considering that it was discontinued 10 years ago. The iPhone/Touch is a nice size to carry around with you. The Newton is/was a bit too big.

If the iPhone/Touch platform can expand into it's own line with more PDA capabilities that would be sweet.

afallnstar said:
No item is just a MP4 player anymore, or a cell phone, or a calendar, or camera. All of these items are merging together and as of recently the quality of each of the given features has risen. A PDA is a personal digital assistant, so though the iPod may have started as just an iPod it is now a PDA, whether people like it or not.
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Convergence seems to be happening for sure.

Apple is testing the waters with their current offerings. I see the things separating into two lines. The dedicated iPod (Shuffle, Nano & Classic) and the iPhone/Touch concept. Eventually we may see the iPhone and Touch as identical except one has the phone function and the other does not.

cklosowski said:
No other ipod has ever had a QWERTY keyboard either.
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And they should use the keyboard feature as much as possible! :)

Reminds me of the Newton, different soft keyboards would pop up for the task at hand. Very convenient.

jcnyc said:
I'm also thinking about canceling my Touch order.
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Personally, I always wait until I can test a new device before purchasing one.
 
doesn't anyone have a calendar application on their standard phones? you can probably edit those on the go. why do you really need to use a calendar on a music device?
 
skylerdavid said:
doesn't anyone have a calendar application on their standard phones? you can probably edit those on the go. why do you really need to use a calendar on a music device?
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Why do you think people keep PDAs? To the people saying "Its just an iPod" what do you think the iPod classic is for? Why give it wifi its just an iPod" Movies why did we ever need those in the first place to it was just an MP3 Player right? Color screens, photo's who needed them right?
 
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"I'm canceling my order 'case Apple took away my calendar. Wahhhhh!!"
 
Most people who settled for the touch will not get an iPhone just for a feature like adding calendar events, but many (as we see) will cancel their order because of this. Whoever came up with this idea at Apple should get demoted. The touch has been crippled enough (not just this omission, but also those of notes, camera, etc.) that I'm just going to get a nano. Yes, I know all the stuff added to the touch is just extra.
 
sblasl said:
I hope you don't consider yourself a "loyal customer", a "loyal customer" would never ever own a PC:rolleyes:.
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I have spent a lot of money on Apple products, including a MBP and several ipods and still continue to spend money at Apple. I guess you don't think that is loyal enough. Judging by your comment, you must be 12 years old.
 
So really, all this extra dough and lack of storage just for touch? touch without basic calendar. great. I was hoping to buy one this month end at Apple Store. Now, I am not sure.

And this should be on FRONT PAGE. please~!
 
For all of you who are saying that it is illegal for Apple to provide incorrect specs for the calendar, I personally think it is fine for them to change what they saw however much they want because the product hasn't actually come out. Nobody's credit card has been charged yet for their iPod touch, so if you really hate that Apple changed that you are more than welcome to cancel your order.

Let's just be optimistic and hope that Apple will add this feature back onto the iPod touch.
 
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