Cant add new events to the iPod Touch calendar

unbelievable...

I am cancelling my order. No way will I let Apple #### me around by crippling features to tempt me to buy the iPhone. I didn't think that's how Apple rolled, looks like I'm wrong.

I wanted an ipod with added functionality. I won't get one, so I'll stick to my basic mp3 player.

Shame Apple.

Where folks are coming from is primarily that it would be ideal to have a device with this nice touch interface that offers the media player functionality as the primary purpose but that is backed up by the ability to do basic business like Notes, Weather, Maps, and E-mail. That's really not asking a lot, and it would help add value to the product to make it feel more worth $400 (16GB). Especially for people that have a cellphone and a contract and have no desire to switch to an iPhone.

Plus it would help a lot of business folks travel on short trips without having to lug a laptop because they'd have their calendar and notes and maps and e-mail accessible in hotspots (assuming internet access would allow calendar to sync/update over the web with their corporate server).

That would be so wonderful. That's the device I (and I think most others) want.

Btw, I too still use a physical planner for my daily stuff but at work I use Outlook 2003's Calendar for all of my work-related items (logically since we use it to set meetings, it helps to use it so people will know when you're free/not free when they're setting a meeting.) I'd love to be able to sync the schedule in that work calendar with the Calendar in the Touch via wi-fi and of course be able to add new events to it.

thats what my moto q is for:D

And for what is still the vast majority of the cell phone population that doesn't use a smartphone with all sorts of apps, they would LOVE to have a device that covers basic PDA functionality in their media player.

The iPod Touch has every opportunity to be the inverse of a PDA which generally has basic media player functionality, by being a media player with basic PDA functionality.

Our current cellphones work fine so we're not in the market for an iPhone, but we are interested in a media player w/ E-mail, Calendar, Notes, and Google Maps.

For the majority of people in the market for an iPod Touch, the decision isn't between an iPhone and a Touch, it's between a Touch and other media players, including the latest PDAs that offer media player functionality.

And you just happen to have Steve's email address?

I sent to sjobs@apple.com and sjobs@mac.com

Saw them on some forum...

This is one of the dumbest moves Apple has made in a while. With the price of the iPhone being so close to the iPod Touch, people are going to buy the one they want....with phone or without, not on features. Apple should allow enter contacts put the mail and notes apps back in. In fact people, TELL THEM!

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html

It kind of sucks that you can't, but I'm not buying it for the calender, that's for sure. That said, with the price between the iPhone and the Touch being so close, Apple needs to differentiate more between the two. iPhone's only 100 dollars more, and the list of features it has that the Touch doesn't just keeps getting longer as more info about the latter trickles in.
I agree, i don't know why not being able to add to the calendar is such a deal breaker. That's the least of my worries. Now, if the damn thing had a camera or speakers and they chose to exclude them, then there would be some commotion from me, but a calendar? Come on.

There has already been people who have got confirmation from Apple support, that the Ipod Touch will allow new events on Calendar. Same features as iphone.

SK

WOW if this holds up to be true, this is gonna go down as one of Apple's biggest mistakes. The Touch has so much potential, but Apple are purposely holding it back!

I'm beginning to wonder if such a device could possibly be worth the $400...

Its An Ipod!! Not A Pda!!!!!

Thing is, if true, Apple is deliberately removing adding new events to the calendar with the sole purpose of making the iPhone more appealing. Same goes for the removal of Notes. We all know the iPod Touch is capable of running the apps. Lameness. I expect garbage like that from less noble, corporate-greed-possessed companies, not Apple.

Still, it's all speculation, so I'll refrain from tossing bitter diatribes until iPod Touch is out and reviewed in depth. Not even the Apple sales people could tell me any specific features of the Touch.

Engadget has already posted that this has been confirmed with their contacts at Apple.

Why people should take a stepback, and reflect on their needs. If you're seeking something to control your life, don't ever for a second think the iPod touch can manage that.

It's kind of weird people are complaining about the lack of ability for the iPod touch to add calendar events.

Why?

1) The iPod touch is NOT a fully functional PDA. From a hardware design perspective it is very much limited, crippled, far from what a standard PDA should be able to do (by 2006/2007 standard). It doesn't have speakers, nor the motor to vibrate. Reminders for events is almost very much crippled. I don't think it will function well as a device that suppose to help you manage your schedule at all. Leave that to a cellphone! Most cellphones these days have the calendar functionality. Better yet, a cellphone can vibrate, and make noise to remind you that you have an appointment coming up. So, why work twice (inputting events) if you can do it once, using your phone (as oppose to doing twice: iPod touch, then your cellphone. OR iPod touch, sync it with your computer, then sync your computer with your cellphone).

2) Contacts, sure, the iPod touch has an address book .app. But it's something that's better off on a cellphone/smart phone. You can't call them with your iPod touch anyway! Okay, sure, maybeeee if your cellphone is dead, and you can use the iPod touch as a back up. But it would make more sense to start adding a contact using your cellphone anyway! So, you can directly call that person without you having to go to a computer with your iPod touch, sync it with the computer, the sync that computer with your cellphone. If you'd like to place a phone call, it would make more sense to pull out your cellphone as oppose to your iPod touch anyway!

3) The only incentive for me to buy the iPod touch (as oppose to the iPod Classic) would be the WiFi + Safari combo. I use a Blackberry (the BB controls my life, I'm leashed to it. I sync it with my Macs everyday). A lot of smartphones don't have WiFi. And if it has WiFi, the browser will most likely be crappy. I've used Safari under the iPhone, and it is beautiful! So, it seems that a Blackberry + iPod touch will be an excellent combo! I can't stand the iPhone, it's a personal matter thing, I like touching my keypads.

So, quit complaining about the iPod touch, order it, and enjoy it for what it is, a DAP on crack :D.

(my post was deleted earlier?)

edit - sorry your first post ended up in the moderation queue!

^ yacoub, I think you and Apple are looking at two different directions.
In your other thread, you wanted the iPod touch to have more storage capacity, but there's a lot of thughts you have to put into that.

If you want HDD, the HDD will chew on the iPod's battery life due to moving parts on a HDD. I'd like to think Apple is decided on using SSD due to it's efficiency, and a rather slim physical size. if you want more battery life on your iPod touch + HDD, you're gonna need a thicker iPod touch, cuz I'd assume the battery has to be larger too (more cells, larger physical battery)!

^
LOL, I think you're expecting too much, sir! I really believe you're not so keen of the iPod touch because of your very very high expectation of the product!

But you have good points too!

Well Sandisk's new Sansa is coming out with 16GB of storage and plays audio and video and will be half the cost. For double the price (+$200), basic PDA functionality really isn't asking so much.

^
Just like very other apple prodcuts, you're paying for a HIGH premium. Brands, etc. etc.
The thing is, Apple products are designed like no other. They look great, their interfaces are gorgeous and slick. That's what I pay for. I looked at the Archos 605, which a friend told me was much better in the same breath as mocking me for getting excited about an "Apple piece of s***". Well I looked at it. Big. Heavy. Clunky interface. Nasty icons. Dreadful photo viewing/manipulation. Hulking great big physical buttons on the side. Overall, nasty.

I'm happy paying that little bit extra for silicon sex, thanks. It's so much more fun. :)

I'd have to agree to everything he said. Basically, it comes down to this, you're paying a premium for a whole different user experience that you can't get anywhere else, but apple products.

And people apprently don't mind paying that extra premium, they gladly pay for something that will enrich/enhance their enjoyment using their consumer devices (be it an DAP, a phone, a computer).

That's what Apple is really really awesome at. Premium at that.

Except, I sorta contradicted my statement with Apple's recent feature cut. Heheheh.
Yes, that feature cut was annoying. Still, I don't mind playing around with some little hacks to make it do what I want it to do. :)