iPod touch The touch does not have auto-correcting keyboard??

[tba03]

I understand they don't want to cut into iPhone sales. So let me buy the "missing" Apps from iTunes for $9.99 or $4.99, depending on the capabilities. I'd buy Mail for $9.99 and Weather for $4.99.

i'd pay 50$ for a decent Remote desktop/vnc client, anything else is pointless to me if I have access to my machines(especially if the vcn/RCD can cut and paste and play sound like the M$ rdc/ts does

 

[Evangelion]

So why do you think Apple's doing it then?

Because they have this irrational feeling that iPhone is where it's at, and they are trying their best to make iPhone head and shoulders above their other products, even if that means artificially crippling functionality in their other devices. Will that boost sales of the iPhone? Propably not. iPhone is not available everywhere where iPod is, and even if it were, many people are simply not in a position to switch cell-phones. Switching their mediaplayers is a lot easier than switching phones.

 

[--Wolf--]

Maybe because there is no point in artificially making product WORSE? How would you feel if you bought a car with V6-engine, only to find out that it only had three functioning cylinders?

Anyway: I'm glad that the auto-correction IS present on the touch .

Well, for 1, Buying a Touch is not buying a iPhone.

If I bought a Touch, and it was missing Safari then it would represent your example of the car.

If the iPod Touch was supposed to be an iPhone, then it would be called the iPod Phone.

 

[wizzracer]

Agreed,

Both sides have great points, however it is the consumer approval / interest that is going to sell these products, hence make Apple money.


I view my iPod touch as an upgrade to my 5g (which I still have) in that light, it is a great upgrade, with many new amazing features.

Amen, its not a replacement for the IPOD. They both serve a purpose. If it did Apple would not have come out with new versions of the IPOD.

 

[wizzracer]

Shucks, I hate the auto correct feature.

You usually don't catch it changing something because you are watching the keyboard to see what letters are being hit. You are sure you hit the right letter only to have it fail later because the input was incorrect (auto correct changed it).

Does anyone know how to turn it off?

Go to your settings icon and then turn it on or off.

 

[Evangelion]

Well, for 1, Buying a Touch is not buying a iPhone.

Well, no it isn't. But SJ himself said that touch is basically iPhone without the phone. it's also missing the camera and the bluetooth, but let's just slump those in to feature-set that is called "smartphone/cameraphone". We were also told that "touch runs same software on basically same hardware as iPhone does".

And guess what? That is not the case. Yes, it runs the same software, but that software has been artificially crippled. Why is this so hard do understand? You and others keep on telling that "but it's not an iPhone!". Yes, we are well aware of that fact. What that fact has to do with crippled calendar, removal of email and notes, is quite simply beyond me. Could you enlighten me here?

If I bought a Touch, and it was missing Safari then it would represent your example of the car.

Yes it would. As would removal of notes and email,a s well as crippling calendar.

If the iPod Touch was supposed to be an iPhone, then it would be called the iPod Phone.

It's not called iPod Phone since it's NOT A PHONE. But what does that have to do with removal of notes and email, as well as crippling the calendar? Please tell me. Are you going to tell me now that "they crippled the calendar and removed email and notes because it's not a phone". Well, what do those three features have to do with the device being or not being a phone? I can understand removing everything related to the phone-features, since touch is missing the hardware to take advantage of those features, but it DOES have the needed hardware for email, notes and editable calendar. And the software supports those features, but they were artificially removed from the device.

Hell, why does touch have editable contacts but not editable calendar? Where is the logic here?