[News]Steve Jobs Explains iPod touch’s Lack of Camera

[Computergizmo]

Q. You put a camcorder on the iPod Nano. Why not on the iPod Touch?

A. Originally, we weren’t exactly sure how to market the Touch. Was it an iPhone without the phone? Was it a pocket computer? What happened was, what customers told us was, they started to see it as a game machine. Because a lot of the games were free on the store. Customers started to tell us, “You don’t know what you’ve got here – it’s a great game machine, with the multitouch screen, the accelerometer, and so on.”

We started to market it that way, and it just took off. And now what we really see is it’s the lowest-cost way to the App Store, and that’s the big draw. So what we were focused on is just reducing the price to $199. We don’t need to add new stuff – we need to get the price down where everyone can afford it.

[Omi]

Its bull shite.

Stevey was making an excuse

[Fahad]

I totally agree with steve here, as i mentioned before it will mostly be game related updates.

I think adding camcorder to nano is more wise as it will make is some sort of mini cam

[Thomas]

I told him that, no its true tho with the camera its just missing the phoning capabilities and technically you can turn it into a phone :\

[jmann]

I think it sounds like an excuse too.

[AK92]

well to be honest its not like the iphone camera can be used as a camera i mean ya u can take photos in perfect conditions and decent contacts photo but its just 3mb

pluss the iphone is a whole lot more expensive and so u kjnew they had to make it better by adding a camera sinse the call features can be replaced with voip

[Chelsealov3]

Slightly irrelevant, but why can't the nano take pictures?

[DoFoT9]

Slightly irrelevant, but why can't the nano take pictures?

i guess its because they want the iphone to only take pictures. its apples way of making you buy more of their stuff