Well I was going through my feeds today and came across this on Mac Rumors. According to them, one of their users, DavidJearly, personally contacted Steve Jobs via email, and recieved a reply, which among other things, stipulated that the removal of the ability to Add/Edit calendar appointments was a ‘bug’, and would be fixed in a future software update. At last they have seen that this was such a stupid and pointless thing to do. It certainly stopped users such as myself going out and picking one up sooner – as I said in ‘At the Apple Store!‘, this was one of the main reasons I would even consider an iPhone over an iPod touch. And I reckon this was the reaction Apple was after, in that this would boost sales of the iPhone over a very minor software feature. Instead I think many who didn’t already have the iPhone came to the same conclusion I did: Where the iPhone available, (and even this doesn’t count in the US) I still wouldn’t buy one until the storage and 3G issues are addressed in the 2nd Gen iPhone. Instead of boosting iPhone sales, they may well have just harmed iPod touch sales.
Well now that this has been solved (or the solution is around the corner), I can again look seriously at the iPod touch to be the perfect companion to my mobile, allowing me to manage the finer details of contacts, after basic numbers, and to get full portable control of my calendar. Since getting the Mac I have become very dependant on iCal and while this syncs to the iPod I am using at the moment – a 30GB Black 5th Gen – the calendar is more limited than it is on the SLVR, and so really not worth using. Contacts is useful, but being able to edit the entries on the move is even more so.
Overall very welcome news, or at least relieving news that maybe Apple do go back on their decisions if they are clearly incorrect ones. Now then, where was the list of stupid decisions I want to quiz Steve on?…
