Ipod is nothing more than a very expensive toy

I just bought my ipod touch. Some of the features are quite good. Also in writing this note, I am very new to the ipod. If there is a feature I complains about, it is because I don't know it exists. I have found the documentation on the ipod horribly incomplete if I want to go beyond using it as toy music or video player .
Having come from a palm pilot, I really like the touch pad and touch keyboard. Playing videos, music is OK. But everything has to go through itunes. Why cannt I just mount the ipod and using it as a disk. Then select music or videos I want to play. Of course those items having data rights would still need to go through itunes.
Notepads and such. No copy and paste. What gives. This is not rocket science. Apparently there was openclip or opencopy. Which if two applications wanted to use it could do a copy and paste between applications. But in a recent ipod update Apple squashed it.
Notes. I have to send myself an email to move a note between the ipod and my mac. Give me a break. Why not a simple sync like calendars and phone addresses.
Also notes has not formatting capability. There is magicpad, BUT it cannot sync its information with a host system. Again gimme a break.
The ipod has an incredible potential to be a very powerful portable office tool. But no cut and paste, and not being able to just mount it as a disk without itunes makes it a toy. Right now I use it as a toy. Watch movies in a restaurant.
Oh I did download filemagnet. so I can view some files. So I can get some work done. But filemagnet doesn't know how to deal with secure documents. So files with passwords appear as a blank screen. Maybe for coloring???

after well over a decade of palm organizers, the touch is, for me, a breath of fresh air.
calendar is my main app (synced with ical); phone book, notes (hopefully synced one of these days to notes in apple mail). contacts.
all these pda functions work great for me. having ereader, music, movies...a plus. then mail, safari, maps, subway map, dictionaries, airsharing...some games, fun stuff. myspace, photos, remote.
plus all the apps at the appstore...
anyway, seems like the touch is whatever you need it to be, which is pretty amazing...

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