Switched On: The iPod touch and the big picture

Switched On: The iPod contact and the bounteous pictureRoss Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

In a New royalty Times discourse of Steve Jobs conducted by Engadget editorialist hopeful king Pogue, Apple’s CEO suggested that the consort did not include a camera on the iPod contact because the consort was today marketing the iPod contact as a mettlesome machine and that a camera was not relevant to much a device. “We don’t need to add newborn stuff,” said Jobs.

But why is adding a digital camera some inferior relevant to the portable mettlesome figure of the iPod contact than it is to adding it to the media contestant of the iPod nano? Or, if toll is an issue, why not exclude it exclusive on the entry-level model? The iPod contact mart module soon be large enough to hold much diversity. And if the iPod contact is indeed existence marketed as a gaming housing and a low-cost point of entry to the app store, excluding a camera disrupts the continuity of the touch/iPhone platform, patch the iPod imaging message is today more muddled: If you’re purchase the iPhone 3G, you crapper capture stills but not video, patch the “lower-end” iPod nano offers recording capture but not stills, the iPod contact offers neither, and exclusive the iPhone 3GS offers both.

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