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6 sep. 2007

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Hadn’t noticed that in all the kinda-not-excitement: the iPod touch doesn’t include Mail. I do understand the rationale for that — you open Safari when you know you’ve got wifi, whereas the mail client keeps pinging the servers, so the user will be confused beyond reason if they have a client that never gets new mail, because they don’t manually join every wifi network they encounter. (Same goes with widgets.)

But, still. The thing has contacts, but no e-mail client. Here’s hoping Gmail looks good on mobile Safari. Oh, and the iPhone touch doesn’t have Notes, either, which is even weirder. (I checked: the keyboard is there in Safari.)

 

I guess John Gruber may be right:

In short, don’t get trapped over-thinking Apple’s fundamental strategy. It’s simple: Make the best products they can and sell them.

In other words: no, it doesn’t have to make sense, and it doesn’t have to have a market. The bottomline is, Apple fans wanted it, the technology was there, and Steve Jobs thought it would be cool (unlike the iTablet that said fans are waiting for), so they just went ahead and did it.

Is there a point where Steve Jobs could be too much of himself for Apple’s sake? I mean, could an alternate Steve Jobs exist, without the idiosyncrasies, and still be as good as him?

 

In other news, I’m wondering how hard it can be to hack iTunes into generating ringtones from your own MP3s, for free. I’m not sure Apple will actually want it to be that difficult.

 

And a last note: “The old iPhone.” One could easily imagine that the early adopters are not only getting screwed by the price cut, but also by the fact that it’s not a cut but a clearance sale to make way for iPhone 2.0. Apple is funny that way.

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