Thank you bluemukaki i noticed the large amount of users that called it the “itouch” and I completely agree.

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In the blog world, it picked up the name iTouch since it is essentially an iPhone sans features. Not only that, but it is shorter and catchier – and the masses love catchy. Pod is so old-school and has a connotation of being “fat”. And yeah, I call my Nano a Nano, and Shuffle – well – a Shuffle.

This isn’t a justification for the name, just a thought.

It’s like people calling the Apple store the iPod store.

I agree with you bluemukaki…my best guess is that culturally, we’re in such a rush that we truncate for efficiency and/or convenience. I loathe this same concept when it involves proper names like mine (Jonathan vs. Jon).

I’m going to take a stand for iTouch users. I call mine an iTouch, because people instantly know what I’m referring to. If I say iPod then they ask what kind, or why it looks funny etc. I think it’s a different product than the other iPod. Actually, I think it’s different enough to have it’s own name. An iPod is a music player that might be able to handle some videos (depending on the model.) The iTouch is a music player that is able to browse the internet, download music, watch movies, etc. It’s not in the same field as the other iPods and therefore should be called differently.

I call it I touch that’s what it is

iTouch is shorter than ” iPod touch ”

I’m just speculating here, but perhaps the iPod in the name iPod Touch is suggestive of a direction that the future iPod line will eventually take, so they want to retain the identity of an iPod versus a full-featured communicator (iPhone).

It just so happens that the iPod Touch is only the first (in the line) of iPods to include the internet and wifi-based features…as a mac geek, I’m willing to bet future offerings of the more diminutive models will eventually include the wifi radio, and have some sort of touch-based interactivity beyond the touch-wheel.