One of the bigger issues in the release of the iPod Touch is the inability to manually add entries to the Calendar app on the iPod itself. Current users are forced to just do everything on the Mac’s iCal application and just sync up with their iPods.
We wonder why this PDA function has been removed (probably because the iPod is not meant to be a PDA - new multi-touch Newtons, anyone?) but why’d they let people tweak Contacts directly on it anyway? For that matter, why even add wifi to the iPod? Just so people can surf to the iTunes Wifi Store and buy songs and make more money for Apple? In that case, why add Safari to the mix? An exclusive direct connection to the IWS would’ve made more sense.
Well, at least there’s hope for iPod Touch owners who want their Calendar apps full-featured.
Steve Jobs has a habit of sometimes answering users’ email directly (or has his elves do it), and hoping for a Jobsian reply MacRumors member David J. Early from Scotland wrote to Steve-O recently to ask (among other things) why Apple has emasculated Calendar. Steve wrote back and said, “The inability to edit or add Calendar events is a bug that will be fixed in a future release.”
Hmm.
Jobs also said in his terse reply that iTunes Games - as they are now - will never show up on the Touch, and totally ignored Early’s other questions.
Full text of the email exchange here.
November 11th, 2007 at 12:14 am
[…] Jobs mentioned this topic in an email exchange with a user where he wrote what he’d eventually do. Of course, someone coulda just told him that it had been fixed already via a jailbreak app and he needn’t have bothered, but I guess it always feels good to go back and do what’s right, even if it’s too little too late. […]