Engadget has just reported that you will not be able to add calendar appointments to your iPod Touch. Sites have been reporting that this may be the case but Engadget has just confirmed this rumor by talking to a contact inside Apple. The iPod Touch will only be able to view appointments made on the computer and will not allow you to create them. This is interesting because they have this feature for the iPhone and have taken it out of the iPod Touch.

This will eventually be solved by the iPod Touch hacking community taking the application from the iPhone and installing it on the iPod Touch. I guess Apple is pushing for people to buy the iPhone rather then the iPod Touch by disabling small features?

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1. bob, September 12, 2007:

   I have just cancelled my order for the iPod touch due to these stupid feature limitations.

2. boby, September 13, 2007:

   i bet there will be a hack to enable it though

3. Ian, September 13, 2007:

   I am like the rest of the group that thought it rocked to be able to add events “on the go”. I immediately bought two 16g ipod touches for myself and my wife since Apple confirmed on their site that it was possible to add events to calendar in the iPod touch description. Now that I have them ordered I am disappointed to find out that they have taken that part out of the description and there is no button visible on the cal picture on the web. Well, it is almost enough to cancel the order but the iPod is still F’n sweet so we are keeping our order in. Anyway, I was on the phone with Apple Support about another issue and the dude transferred me to the iPod Support department and I asked about the iPod Touch Calendar. The girl on the phone might not know what she is talking about but she said, same bianaries and that it IS the iphone minus the phone and the other known “withouts” i.e. stocks, maps, etc. But she said that they prolly took the calendar description off because it didn’t make sense to advertise it. I strongly doubt that she is right but she assured me that it would be a feature. Take it with a grain of salt.

4. Rob, September 14, 2007:

   Does anyone else think this might just be a preferences thing?? Cause it seems like it would be a lot of extra work to release/maintain two versions of the same application.

   From a programming perspective, it would be much easier to make the add button’s visibility base on a preference file.