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It's great for integrated/specialist apps that only communicate via wifi or something (i.e. Plane ticket scanners and hundreds of other applications). My bet is

It's great for integrated/specialist apps that only communicate via wifi or something (i.e. Plane ticket scanners and hundreds of other applications). My bet is that iPod touches are for industry. I deploy on them in some instances, they are perfect for limited location use where you can bridge connectivity by a non cellular means

Chaebixi 9y ago
> My bet is that iPod touches are for industry. My understanding is that they're for children, to help get them hooked into the ecosystem when they're young.
- nol13 9y ago
  my anecdotal experience agrees
- pfranz 9y ago
  Maybe that was the case years ago, but I feel like now there's plenty of hand-me-down iPhones or iPads.
zyb09 9y ago
I've seen tons of people using iPod touches as dev devices. Much cheaper having multiple iPod touches running older iOS, or iOS betas, then having that many iPhones.
diegoperini 9y ago
From my personal anectode, iPod touch is a great option for entertainment and media for someone who uses an Android phone.
icelancer 9y ago
We deploy them at work. There are some devices that only integrate with iOS and an iPad is overkill.
- lukeholder 9y ago
  What do you use them for?
  - icelancer 9y ago
    Lot of consumer/prosumer-grade sports science gear syncs with iOS only via Bluetooth. It's annoying but I'm not about to reverse engineer / packet sniff their stuff to get it on my PC.
chime 9y ago
We use 20+ iPod Touch 6 with Infinea X barcode scanners and their free WebHub app to run a web-based warehouse/inventory system. A decade ago it was a pain to deal with Symbol/Motorola scanners and native app deployments. Now it's as easy as JS thanks to iPod Touch and WebHub. [1] https://ipcmobile.com/products/ios-peripherals/infinea-x/ https://ipcmobile.com/products/ios-peripherals/infinea-x/ [2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webhub-ipc-browser/id1015159874?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webhub-ipc-browser/id1015159...

Chaebixi 9y ago

> My bet is that iPod touches are for industry. My understanding is that they're for children, to help get them hooked into the ecosystem when they're young.

nol13 9y ago
my anecdotal experience agrees
pfranz 9y ago
Maybe that was the case years ago, but I feel like now there's plenty of hand-me-down iPhones or iPads.

zyb09 9y ago

I've seen tons of people using iPod touches as dev devices. Much cheaper having multiple iPod touches running older iOS, or iOS betas, then having that many iPhones.

diegoperini 9y ago

From my personal anectode, iPod touch is a great option for entertainment and media for someone who uses an Android phone.

icelancer 9y ago

We deploy them at work. There are some devices that only integrate with iOS and an iPad is overkill.

lukeholder 9y ago
What do you use them for?
- icelancer 9y ago
  Lot of consumer/prosumer-grade sports science gear syncs with iOS only via Bluetooth. It's annoying but I'm not about to reverse engineer / packet sniff their stuff to get it on my PC.

chime 9y ago

We use 20+ iPod Touch 6 with Infinea X barcode scanners and their free WebHub app to run a web-based warehouse/inventory system. A decade ago it was a pain to deal with Symbol/Motorola scanners and native app deployments. Now it's as easy as JS thanks to iPod Touch and WebHub. [1] https://ipcmobile.com/products/ios-peripherals/infinea-x/ https://ipcmobile.com/products/ios-peripherals/infinea-x/ [2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webhub-ipc-browser/id1015159874?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webhub-ipc-browser/id1015159...