No Mail app on iPod Touch?

[Jim Witte]

>>> On Thu, September 6, 2007 11:33 am, Ashley Aitken said:
>>>> Why no Mail app on iPod Touch?
>>> It's an iPod.

   Maybe Apple's afraid that if they put too many things on the iPod  
Touch, it might cut into iPhone sales.  As for "just get an iPhone" -  
the iPhone requires a contract - until someone comes up with a  
reliable way to enable it without one (meaning can't be patched over  
in half an hour by Apple in a software update).  The iPhone is very  
close to being a reincarnation of the Newton (just add Inkwell - and  
COMPLETE Inkewell so it can handle cursive as well as printing [this  
WAS in the works before Newton was canned..]).  But as long as the  
iPhone is teathered to a phone contract..  it isn't a real PDA IMO.

	The iPhone is a lot better than the Newton was in a lot of ways - it  
lacks external storage capacity (until someone figures out how to  
hook up PCMCIA/CF/express-cards to the dock port), but the processor  
is faster, the screen is better, it has built-in Wifi and Bluetooth  
ad MP3 support (instead of being software/hardware add-ons with the  
Newton), and video support in hardware (will never happen for the  
Newton unless there's a hardware decoding solution).  But then,  
Newton per se is dead - the future of the platform is software  
emulation, which I would really like to see on an iPhone - if only to  
see the reaction at an Apple store..  Einstein running on the iPhone  
- and once Linux for a lightweight POSIX OS is running on iPhone - it  
will be..  :)

   I wonder - how long until the Cocoa layer for iPod Touch is  
hacked? Isn't there already at least a partly-functional toolchain  
for making real  apps for the iPhone (on whatever stripped down  
version of OSX it uses).  I assume iPod Touch is quite similar  
software wise.. and there already is an established "iPod Hacking"  
community" (which doesn't seem quite as developed for the iPhone -  
yet - but the iPhone has only been out for about a month - having a  
partial toolchain this quickly is amazing IMO)

Jim