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 most consumer technology.

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

But ground is adding a digital camera some less relevant to the portable mettlesome figure of the iPod contact than it is to adding it to the media player of the iPod nano? Or, if toll is an issue, ground not eliminate it exclusive on the entry-level model? The iPod contact mart module presently be large enough to hold much diversity. And if the iPod contact is indeed being 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 imagery message is now more muddled: If you’re purchase the iPhone 3G, you crapper getting stills but not video, patch the “lower-end” iPod nano offers recording getting but not stills, the iPod contact offers neither, and exclusive the iPhone 3GS offers both.

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