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Ah more Touch news, a big surprise huh. Well this one brings into question some of the problems and complaints that people have had with the iPod Touch. We’ve heard the problems of the screen just not being as phenomenal of that on the iPhone, we’ve heard a couple accounts of iPod failure, and of course the list of things the iPhone has over the Touch will be thrown out by people for months to come. No surprises there. But there are some small issues that I can’t believe Apple missed. Obviously the internals of the Touch and the iPhone are similar but I now have reason to think that Apple just did not spend enough time field testing and general testing the Touch. This showed up on the front page of Digg this morning. The Touch calling itself an iPhone huh? Some kind of facade, some kind of trick? Nope, just a stupid slip up by the Apple. Now, I’m aware there was more to test with the iPhone, as it is a phone after all, and finding out where connection speeds and how well the antenna worked was crucial. Still, people putting in hours with the Touch finding the errors and reporting complaints could have helped, right?

Is this kind of event a big deal? No (but the screen is kind of disappointing, though not dramatic). But, it shouldn’t even happen. The iPhone received extensive field testing months before it’s release. There were very lucky people wandering around cities with the “holy” device for a while. The iPod’s Touch release was quick, coming not long after the release of the iPhone. So obviously Apple had the technology and they’ve had this in the works, but yet a few shortcomings. So was there inadequate testing, or none at all? Hmmm….