Via a comment on our coverage of the iPod touch app upgrade, Jackson let us know about two ways that people are protesting Apple’s $20 charge for the update that adds several apps left off the initial release.
Jackson’s reaction to the $20 update reflects a lot of early buyers’ attitudes:
I am outraged that Apple is [...]
Apple today added new models of the iPhone and iPod touch which have double the memory.
The iPhone now comes in a new 16GB model for $499, joining the 8GB model for $399. iPod touch now comes in a 32GB model for $499, joining the 16GB model for $399 and the 8GB model for $299.
“For some [...]
When Steve Jobs initially introduced the iPod touch, we were surprised at the things that Apple had decided to leave out. We wanted to know why Apple had handicapped the iPod touch, which buyers were expecting to be an iPhone without the phone:
Why doesn’t the iPod touch have Google Maps, Stocks, Notes & Weather? These apps [...]
At the 2008 CES Show, FlyTunes introduced a new digital music service for the Apple iPhone,
iPod Touch and other portable media players and cell phones:
FlyTunes offers a personalized radio-like experience, with thousands of channels of digital music.
Features:
FlyTunes does not require a receiver or additional hardware purchase - it works with your cell phone or personal [...]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today announced that native third-party apps will soon be coming to the iPhone and the iPod touch.
Here’s the text of his announcement:
“Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers‚Äô hands in February. We are excited about [...]
The Mac Observer is reporting that a 13 year-old nicknamed AriX has produced a “jailbreak method” hack for the iPod touch called iJailBreak. The program allows iPod touch users to install third-party applications.
The hack is especially interesting because of the way that Apple has intentionally crippled the device. For example, it’s been revealed that editing [...]
Since the introduction of the iPhone, we’ve been lamenting the fact that Apple has left its ?ºber-phone out of the revolution in user-generated content:
User-generated media is one of the biggest trends on the Internet. So why isn’t there a keyboard accessory for these devices, so people could use them to edit their blogs? Why no [...]
Gizmodo has picked up the question we raised last week, wondering “Why Apple is crippling the iPod touch?”
They note that “Apple has removed the ability to add events in the iPod touch’s calendar, even while it uses the same operating system and application frameworks as the iPhone.”
We’re wondering, if the iPod touch is like an [...]
Apple today slashed pricing on the iPhone, eliminating the entry-level 4GB model, and dropping the price of the 8GB model $200 to $399.
Pricing was the number one problem we identified in our list of 5 things Apple needs to do to fix the iPhone, so we’re not surprised to see the dramatic price cut. We’d [...]
Apple today introduced the new iPod touch, featuring Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch user interface.
Highlights
First introduced on iPhone, the multi-touch interface uses pioneering new software to present a different user interface for each application.
The iPod touch also includes Wi-Fi wireless networking, the first on any iPod, and three applications that use it:
Safari lets users wirelessly view web [...]