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Did the let's rock event disappoint you?


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REAL GPS...
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agreed.
I am not sure how I feel about a turn by turn GPS unless it can still function while playing music or talking on the phone through a hands-free headset. (I am not sure iPhone hardware is capable.) Otherwise, a dedicated GPS unit sounds much better and they are not that expensive anyways.

I was expecting a GPS for Touch, but maybe next year...
 
Which features? I am pretty sure the genius thing will come with 2.1 update on Friday. In any case, I don't know if it is such a big deal. The volume control buttons already exist in iPhone. It has microphone already. The chrome back? Yeah, somebody is screwed all right...

Integrated Nike+? New headphones? Not saying these are deal-breakers by any means, it's just the idea that both products are basically the same and one gets hardware upgrades, and the other gets a software upgrade for free. If I owned a Touch I would be frustrated too...
 
That sucked big time. Where is the cut and paste? MMS? GPS? I NEED GPS. Apple fans get your head out of your colective arses and try to be objective. I don't want to hear "if you have low expectations then you are always happy", I'm not Danish!

I love the iPhone but I need more - I need GPS.

How can you need GPS? If you did, then surely you would have bought a GPS device as well or instead of an iPhone?! :confused:
 
How in the world could they not even address the 3G issue. The words 3G never even came out of their mouth - dissapointing isn't even the word, it's a damn shame in my opinion, and I don't need to wait till Friday to judge the update to say that. As a company holding such a major press event it's your RESPONSIBILITY to address your clients' issues/concerns - at the very least they could have addressed the "2%" of their client base with faulty hardware! This is just bad for business and low class. To only add salt to wound they just had to throw in the whole bid about their "new features" too just to get more exposure. All they care about is selling, selling, and selling more. This wasn't about their customers, it was about selling a new product and making more money - good going Apple, you're very quickly losing any little faith I had in you. Where's the good competition already? Cause the lack of it is really making Apple way too lazy for my liking. Here's to hoping the Android phones and Nokia Tube can bring some class and customer care back to the marketshare.

Probably because, as has been stated many times I'm sure, 3G issues don't seem to have anything to do with the iPhone at this point. After multiple tests, it seems to be completely a network issue. What you should be saying is how on earth you keep getting phone bills from AT&T charging you a ton of money for a cellular service that is defective.

Oh and as for turn by turn directions, if you can't figure out where you're going with cellular/wi-fi triangulation and Google maps, then you're hopeless and a funny voice telling you left or right isn't going to help you either.
 
This event was a joke. There was nothing revolutionary introduced today. Apple has set the bar high for themselves by introducing revolutionary products at there events lately. By holding an event just to introduce these modified products, they are falling under the expectations that they have earned from their prior earth-shattering announcements. They should have kept this low key, and people would be pleasantly surprised at the announcements instead of upset. There was no zing at the end, no wow factor.
 
I am neither excited nor disappointed, but I am wondering what makes this Friday's version 2.1 instead of 2.0.3. If it's just bug fixes as stated, it shouldn't get a x.1 version number. If it adds new features, why weren't they described?
 
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BongoBanger said:
what the hell were you people expecting? The event went exactly how we all (at least anyone that has any grasp on reality) thought it would go. New ipod touch, new ipod nano, revamped ipod classic line, 2.1 software, new itunes.....

Which totally justified Apple hyping the even and telling the press it would be "something big".

Or not.

Exactly. It's one thing to have nothing significant to say, and quite another to implore the press to be there knowing full well you have nothing significant to say.

But wait, he did say that 2.1 would have bug fixes and that apps would no longer crash. For many people, I guess that is "something big" ... ;)
 
Blimey people are never happy on here about what happens. Just count it as more and a lot better then before. And don't browse these forums if you're only going to be disappointed. Because you always will be if you look at all rumors on here!!

I've been around here long enough to expect these whiners after EVERY SINGLE EVENT, but it does get annoying, nonetheless.
 
do you agree?

Question... what did you expect?

iTunes subscriptions? Size upgraded iPhone? AppleTV with DVR?

If you were like a lot and believed those would happen... then the reason for you being disappointed is your fault.

EDIT: Also, the fact that you're posting this in te iPhone section when it's called "Let's Rock" (implying MUSIC & IPODS) confirms, for me, that you expected this thing to be something about iPhone's... which it clearly wasn't. This event was for music, which means iPod and iTunes, which they showed off some good stuff... at least for people who knew the show wasn't for MacBooks, iPhone's or AppleTV.
 
REAL GPS...
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agreed.

I believe there is an issue in which the battery will stop charging when plugged into the power source in a car while GPS is running. The phone autmatically stops charging when it gets too hot, and using GPS while charging does just that, reducing the battery life to a few hours, thereby making the function semi-usless in many real-life situations.

Perhaps the so-called better power management of 2.1 will fix this issue.
 
ok lemme ask you why you guys think this sucks i mean do you guys think there was gonna be macbook? or adding more stuff that makes the ipod touch a iphone? i mean first off this was stated from the begining that this was a ipod event Second if apple puts more features that resemble the iphone its obviously going to cut into iphone sales wich apple wont do since the iphone is selling like hot cakes so please explain to me why you think this sucked?
 
I bet there was some pissed people when they found out that the classic dropped 40g's.

I REALLY wish that the back of the iPod Touch would have been made in plastic.

I guess they have to make them [iPhone and iPod Touch] different some how, though, the price is higher on the iPod Touch, so they should at least have a back to it that doesn't scratch as much.

By the way, I was happy with the release.
I think Apple released some cool products!
I think I'll be getting a red Nano.
 
This happens ALL THE TIME!

The rumors hype everything up, there is no way Apple could have put on a show that would have blown away everyone.

After every even all you hear is how disappointing it was! ugh! :rolleyes:
 
If 2.1 comes Friday and we still see the same stupid issues that haven't been fixed, then yes, it will be a let down. I'll reserve my judgement until then.

The iTunes 8 thing is bogus. It's not a revamped version at all, rather a new added feature. That was BS.
 
Question... what did you expect?

iTunes subscriptions? Size upgraded iPhone? AppleTV with DVR?

If you were like a lot and believed those would happen... then the reason for you being disappointed is your fault.

EDIT: Also, the fact that you're posting this in te iPhone section when it's called "Let's Rock" (implying MUSIC & IPODS) confirms, for me, that you expected this thing to be something about iPhone's... which it clearly wasn't. This event was for music, which means iPod and iTunes, which they showed off some good stuff... at least for people who knew the show wasn't for MacBooks, iPhone's or AppleTV.

Unless I am mistaken Jobs himself called the iPhone " the greatest iPod Apple has ever made" Evidently it isn't the "funnest" Ipod. So why are people saying the iPhone has nothing to do with IPods? There is a little app on the thing called iPod.

They earphone not working with the phone is retarded. Though that's $79 I don't spend.
 
This happens ALL THE TIME!

The rumors hype everything up, there is no way Apple could have put on a show that would have blown away everyone.

After every even all you hear is how disappointing it was! ugh! :rolleyes:

Yeah? And who actually hyped it up? Apple; that's who.
 
Nope. It was exactly what was expected, plus a few things we were not expecting.

TEG

I suppose the proper thing to say is +1?

I wasn't disappointed, but I am getting tired of Apple's schedule of updating their computers with newer chipsets. These announcements are all fine and good, but I can't say that I know many people that were waiting for Apple to refresh the iPod Touch line even though I know there are some somewhere.

People expect a lot from Apple and we're impatient. Refresh already damnit! :D
 
How in the world could they not even address the 3G issue. The words 3G never even came out of their mouth - dissapointing isn't even the word, it's a damn shame in my opinion, and I don't need to wait till Friday to judge the update to say that. As a company holding such a major press event it's your RESPONSIBILITY to address your clients' issues/concerns - at the very least they could have addressed the "2%" of their client base with faulty hardware!

They did, he said the 2.1. update would fix/reduce dropped calls.

All they care about is selling, selling, and selling more.

Business wants to sell products!! More at 10!!!

Here's to hoping the Android phones and Nokia Tube can bring some class and customer care back to the marketshare.

Hahaha, right. Let us know how that Android handset works out for you, presuming MacRumors still exists when they eventually get to market.

That sucked big time. Where is the cut and paste? MMS? GPS? I NEED GPS.

If turn-by-turn GPS is a deal-breaking feature for you, why did you buy an iPhone when you (presumably) knew it didn't have it and there was no guarantee it ever would?

Huh? Where is the "secret functionality" or new features in 2.1?

Steve did mention "other improvements in functionality" when talking about 2.1: I'd imagine that the update will include all the iPod app changes that they demoed for the Touch, for example. Maybe there will be other stuff too, we'll just have to wait and see.

Many are frustrated at the fact that Apple seems to have screwed over the iPhone owners to bump sales for iPod Touches.

That would presumably be the same people who have been complaining since the launch of the iPhone that the Touch was overpriced and under-featured compared to the iPhone. Just shows you can't please everyone, I suppose.

But wait, he did say that 2.1 would have bug fixes and that apps would no longer crash. For many people, I guess that is "something big" ... ;)

Well, as one of the biggest complainers on here about bugs in 2.0.2, I'd have thought that bug fixes would be a big deal to you. :)
 
Why am i disappointed, you ask? although this event wasn't focused around the iPhone, Jobs clearly announced what the iPhone's 2.1 software would have: "bug fixes"..i would rather have had him not mention anything about the iPhone so that there would still be some HOPE that there would be new, exciting features for us iPhone users..we now KNOW theres nothing NEW in the update. Theres NOTHING to be souped about for the new firmware update, and THAT, my friends, is the reason i am disappointed.
 
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