I wrote about my iPod touch earlier (after getting it for Christmas). I had a few reservations about it, so couldn’t give it my unconditional love, but that’s pretty much changed now after the update that came out at Macworld Expo.
The update addressed a few of my concerns: it fixed the sleep timer (hooray!!) and let me move stuff around on the main screen, so it’s easier to get to the sleep timer, so I don’t notice the interface being slow. I found an easier way to pause the music: hit the main button twice and you get a small set of controls where you can pause and change the volume. Better than what I was doing, still not the best set up.
Still can’t see my podcast info, but that’s fairly minor.
What the update added was major: Google maps app including a gps-like locate me feature, notes, weather, and stock apps, and the ability to move buttons around and have extra screens to put new stuff on (when Apple opens the touch and iPhone up to outside developers).
I had to pay $20 for the update. A lot of people complained about this. It didn’t bother me. If it was only a bug fix I would have been annoyed, but might have still paid for it just to get the sleep timer fixed. As it was, I paid my money knowing what I was getting with the iPod touch. Then for just $20, I got a lot of the functionality of the iPhone, that’s awesome!
It also points out the beauty of the touch and iPhone interfaces, since they are all software based. Apple can roll out wonderful stuff for them and we won’t have to buy new hardware, we can just get a software update.
So, there is now one big problem with the touch. It’s not an iPhone 
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