Moving from my iPod video 60 Gig model to an iPod Touch 16 Gig has been a real paradigm shift. Yes, yes, I know, it's a fairly obvious thing to say.
Here's some of the things that have struck me as I've lived with it for the last five days.
1. Stanza. How have I ever tolerated not having something this amazingly useful on my media player? And I can get books from free wireless? Do I need/want a Kindle now? No?
2. No disc mode. That's a little sad, b/c most of my portable apps live on my 60G. Ah well, 16 G really doesn't leave me with room that I'd feel comfortable throwing portable apps on anyway.
3. No click wheel. I understand that this was a selling point - See this really cool touch interface! But when I was listening to a playlist, or shuffle mode, and ran into a song that I wanted to skip, it was the work of a moment to reach down and hit the right side of the click wheel. Likewise, if I'm walking around the house and someone wants to talk to me, it used to be very quick to hit the Play/Pause at the bottom of the wheel by touch alone, while it was still in my pocket. No problem. Now, I absolutely have to have my eyes on what I'm doing, because there's no tactile feedback to what I'm doing.
4. Smaller size is not necessarily a bad thing. This is a fairly new thought to me. The fact that I now have an iPod that is about 1/4 the size of the one I was using means I have to be a lot more selective in what gets on it. Yes, it's still over 1k songs and hours of video, but compared with the space I had before it's a real shift. But that means that I'm a lot more focused on quality now, and particularly on rating the songs that come up. It's easier to get my head around the collection the way it is.
5. Apps are fantastic. For example, last night I was entering all my GutCheck weigh-ins into "WeightBot", a neat little app that tracks and charts weight loss, figures BMI, etc. (hat tip here to Download Squad). At once I was interested in seeing the progress I've made, and at the same time a little incensed that I seem to have really plateaued over the last month. Evernote keeps me synced with bookmarks, to-do lists, clips, quotes, etc. And all my devices need some form of Sudoku. (Though I wish the one I had selected had an option for entering custom puzzles and a solver mode, in case I wanted to take today's paper sudoku puzzle on the go - maybe in the next update?)
6. Wireless is a real battery-drainer.
So far, I wouldn't go back, but it's been an adjustment, no question about it.
Here's some of the things that have struck me as I've lived with it for the last five days.
1. Stanza. How have I ever tolerated not having something this amazingly useful on my media player? And I can get books from free wireless? Do I need/want a Kindle now? No?
2. No disc mode. That's a little sad, b/c most of my portable apps live on my 60G. Ah well, 16 G really doesn't leave me with room that I'd feel comfortable throwing portable apps on anyway.
3. No click wheel. I understand that this was a selling point - See this really cool touch interface! But when I was listening to a playlist, or shuffle mode, and ran into a song that I wanted to skip, it was the work of a moment to reach down and hit the right side of the click wheel. Likewise, if I'm walking around the house and someone wants to talk to me, it used to be very quick to hit the Play/Pause at the bottom of the wheel by touch alone, while it was still in my pocket. No problem. Now, I absolutely have to have my eyes on what I'm doing, because there's no tactile feedback to what I'm doing.
4. Smaller size is not necessarily a bad thing. This is a fairly new thought to me. The fact that I now have an iPod that is about 1/4 the size of the one I was using means I have to be a lot more selective in what gets on it. Yes, it's still over 1k songs and hours of video, but compared with the space I had before it's a real shift. But that means that I'm a lot more focused on quality now, and particularly on rating the songs that come up. It's easier to get my head around the collection the way it is.
5. Apps are fantastic. For example, last night I was entering all my GutCheck weigh-ins into "WeightBot", a neat little app that tracks and charts weight loss, figures BMI, etc. (hat tip here to Download Squad). At once I was interested in seeing the progress I've made, and at the same time a little incensed that I seem to have really plateaued over the last month. Evernote keeps me synced with bookmarks, to-do lists, clips, quotes, etc. And all my devices need some form of Sudoku. (Though I wish the one I had selected had an option for entering custom puzzles and a solver mode, in case I wanted to take today's paper sudoku puzzle on the go - maybe in the next update?)
6. Wireless is a real battery-drainer.
So far, I wouldn't go back, but it's been an adjustment, no question about it.
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