TouchSmarter: Touch Screen Gadgets

With Mail and Google Maps nowhere to be seen, word comes to us from Everything Apple that the iCal application looks to also be intentionally crippled on the new iPod Touch. First, it was a missing icon, and later, a change in textual description by Apple, that has the warning bells going off.

And iPod touch features a touchscreen QWERTY keyboard perfect for browsing the web in Safari, searching for videos on YouTube, finding music on the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, entering calendar events, or adding new contacts.

Changed to:

And iPod touch features a touchscreen QWERTY keyboard perfect for browsing the web in Safari, searching for videos on YouTube, finding music on the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, or adding new contacts.

If true, it is unfortunate that Apple thinks it needs to cripple features of the Touch to prevent cannibalizing sales of the iPhone.

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