General iPod Photo problems, can they be fixed?

[Convert]

Hey, before you read on, I'd like to say by problem I mean screw up in design/software, not a personal iPod problem.


After reading this review I am feeling somewhat... unsure about getting the iPod photo.

You can't zoom in or pan around your images, and you can't rotate photos; all adjustments have to be made before you download the images. If you want to store full-resolution pictures that can be transferred to another computer or printed, you have to select that option in iTunes. If you forget, you'll wind up with low-res images on the unit's hard drive that lack full-resolution counterparts.

What happened to the portability of iPod? On-the-go Playlists, etc? That's still there of course, but I can't even zoom in on a photo? To be able to put the photos on another Computer I have to select the option before I download the pics onto the iPod?

Also, the iPod Photo insists that only one computer can be its source of photos. If you connect it to another computer it will ask you if you want to replace all of the images currently on the iPod with the images currently on the computer.

WHY?! I understand if it was music, but these are photos. Steve Jobs himself said there was no copyright on photos, well, our own photos. Why only one source?

digital photographers can still use the Belkin Digital Camera Link or a card reader on the road to offload images to the iPod Photo, but you will not be able to display those images on the iPod Photo (since they do not pass through iTunes).

That is reeeeeeeeeallly stupid. Seriously.

The main problem here seems to be portability. Not so much "On the road" freedom.

Can Apple sort this out? New firmware? Are there any 3rd party hacks?

Thanks.

 

[Ripcord]

I agree 100% that these are silly and reduce the usability of the iPod photo (whose photo "advantages" are already questionable without poor UI). These sound like amateur UI mistakes.

Presumably, though, all of these things could be fixed by a software update. Hopefully that'll happen.

 

[Convert]

Yeah, I do wonder how Apple could make these mistakes. It really makes no sense at all. I don't like the idea of having to "run back to homebase" (i.e my mac) to upload new photos, change settings of those photos, heck, I was hoping to be able to just go to a friends computer and download whatever pictures they have (of friends, lol) thus nmaking it a much more sociable device. It seems too good a concept to miss. I hope they fix this.