Thread: iPhone and iPod Touch SDK is amazing... Wow.
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2008-03-11 , 15:33
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Originally Posted by anidel View Post
Well the thread creator did want to compare the two devices.
Anyway you're right, two totally different devices that do not compete, in my opinion, at all.
The iPhone is a phone, the IT is not.
The iPod touch is a media player, the IT is not.
This should be enough.

The iPhone is for Mac users, the IT is for the rest of us.

I am both a Mac user and non-Mac user.

So, now, I don't know which one I should love

EDIT: oh, texrat already prized you
I must disagree. Perhaps at the beginning this was the case but Apple Inc. has made it clear that it intends for the iPod Touch to be an "Internet tablet." Think of it as an IT for the rest of us who don't want to fiddle with the OS and install what the Tao considers dumb "useless" apps.

I think it would be a huge mistake to not think of it as competition especially since, as pointed out earlier, Apple is stating that it intends for it to be competition. Currently the Touch's screen is too small. I saw one and that bothered me about it, but it is the size of my current iPhone knock off and I really can't complain to much about it (screen size, the OS is a whole other subject).
Currently the biggest problem with it is:
No Bluetooth (iPhone has that)
NO GPS (Which could be overcome with GPS).
Limited CODEC support (Probably the biggest reason next to lack of Maemomapper that I haven't touched the Touch).