I'm sick of stupid anti-apple comments like these from ultra-nerds. Over the years I've owned 2 Treos with PalmOS, A Treo, Moto Q, and HTC Tytn running Windows Mobile, a Blackberry, and a nokia with Symbian. I've owned PCs for 15 years with every version of Windows since 3.11, and once flirted with an Apple G4 for a few weeks. I consider myself pretty well experienced in most hardware without any real bias. I just like what works and works well.
The iPod Touch I have sitting here IS engineered wonderfully and "looks pretty". But it is bar none the most intuitive, responsive and advanced mobile electronics device I have ever owned for $299. I mean jesus, I have a BSD-based ARM computer in my pocket that can SSH or even VNC into my e-comm web servers. The SDK will be out in just a few weeks and if it is not crippled with chains it will cause this platform to explode in popularity. I can only imagine the ingenious apps that developers will create. I really believe mobile OSX will become what we all dreamed of having in an advanced mobile linux phone/pda. After my experience with the Touch, I'm now planning to get a new Mac Pro and finally make the switch. Dual Quad Core Xeon, 4 GB ram, 3 TB, 8800GT, and yes it's "pretty".
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James L @ Feb 10th 2008 2:52PM
A crippled gaming device tied to iTunes but ultimatly going to sell because it looks pretty?
LegendZ28 @ Feb 10th 2008 3:06PM
Bingo was his name-o.
Liam @ Feb 10th 2008 3:14PM
I think Nintendo have got the 'pretty gaming system' market pretty much wrapped up right now. Everything else just looks quite nerdy in comparison.
aaron @ Feb 10th 2008 3:26PM
@Liam
"Pretty"...okay. More like pretty lame though.
jamma @ Feb 10th 2008 3:31PM
I'd love to see the Jobsnote on this:
"with the iPlay, the revolutionary multi-touch interface allows the user to both move and look around at the same time!!"
Ray @ Feb 10th 2008 4:19PM
Apple Pippin II!
zephead @ Feb 10th 2008 7:42PM
Just like Wii games are tied to Nintendo, PS3 games are tied to Sony, and Xbox games are tied to Microsoft?
Shadow08 @ Feb 14th 2008 3:52PM
Zephead, third party and multi platform games exist. Plus, each developer can sell their games where they want, for any price they want.
Sam Winter @ Feb 11th 2008 4:49AM
I'm sick of stupid anti-apple comments like these from ultra-nerds.
Over the years I've owned 2 Treos with PalmOS, A Treo, Moto Q, and HTC Tytn running Windows Mobile, a Blackberry, and a nokia with Symbian. I've owned PCs for 15 years with every version of Windows since 3.11, and once flirted with an Apple G4 for a few weeks. I consider myself pretty well experienced in most hardware without any real bias. I just like what works and works well.
The iPod Touch I have sitting here IS engineered wonderfully and "looks pretty". But it is bar none the most intuitive, responsive and advanced mobile electronics device I have ever owned for $299. I mean jesus, I have a BSD-based ARM computer in my pocket that can SSH or even VNC into my e-comm web servers. The SDK will be out in just a few weeks and if it is not crippled with chains it will cause this platform to explode in popularity. I can only imagine the ingenious apps that developers will create. I really believe mobile OSX will become what we all dreamed of having in an advanced mobile linux phone/pda. After my experience with the Touch, I'm now planning to get a new Mac Pro and finally make the switch. Dual Quad Core Xeon, 4 GB ram, 3 TB, 8800GT, and yes it's "pretty".
Nick @ Feb 11th 2008 9:19AM
Is it just me or is that picture what happens when a Nintendo DS and a Sega Game Gear get it on.
Ty @ Feb 11th 2008 10:12AM
Sam - I hope you're gonna boot camp vista on your fancy Mac Pro gaming rig!