Death of the iPod

[jamied95]

With the 'iPod' app now gone from the iPhone, and the fact there is no iPod touch in the iOS5 code mean that the iPod is now taking a major backseat, with maybe a silent release January time while iPhone and iPad are updated together (an iOS event, if you will) in September?

 

[Intell]

Just because Apple hasn't put any reference to iPod5,1 in the iOS5 beta 1 doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Maybe they got smart and removed the references.

 

[gnasher729]

Just because Apple hasn't put any reference to iPod5,1 in the iOS5 beta 1 doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Maybe they got smart and removed the references.

Don't you know they put these references in there just for fun? Just add a string to some list that does nothing, and a whole lot of people freak out. And Apple developers are having a laugh.

 

[jamied95]

Yet left their two biggest iOS products in the code? Ok...

 

[Reddkryten]

Is it possible that the iPod and iPhone strings are the same? I mean the hardware is almost identical, and with iMessages it just got a little bit closer.

Could there be a NoPhone string hidden in there somewhere? So from a software perspective, the iPod will literally be an iPhone without a phone.

 

[Intell]

Yet left their two biggest iOS products in the code? Ok...

Its possible that the iPod Touch 5 has a special build that doesn't share the same source code as the rest of iOS. I don't know, I'm not an Apple person.

Is it possible that the iPod and iPhone strings are the same? I mean the hardware is almost identical, and with iMessages it just got a little bit closer.

Could there be a NoPhone string hidden in there somewhere? So from a software perspective, the iPod will literally be an iPhone without a phone.

Nope, the two (three) versions of the iPhone 4 are all listed there and they are even closer then the iPod Touch and iPhone.