1. Wait. Did I miss something? Is there a published hack for the iPod touch? I thought the hacks that have already been released were iPhone only? Someone please enlighten.

Posted at 3:59PM on Oct 11th 2007 by luke

2. Where have you been the last 3 days? ;-)

Since a jailbreak is required, this substitutes for copying over the iPhone Calendar app. I guess this is better, since if you are copying over the iPhone version it needs to be 1.0.2 (probably not much difference though.)

Posted at 4:06PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Stephen Lang

3. Hmmm, quite a bug that needs to be fixed...

Posted at 4:09PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Jon Oakes

4. do the edited/calendars created on the iPod Touch sync back to the Mac nicely like with iPhone?

Posted at 4:12PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Eric Carroll

5. Awesome now if only there was a one-click process to jailbreaking the touch. I have no interest in complex combinations of downloads and command lines and other mumbo-jumbo.

Give me a file I can download and run that will take care of everything up to and including installing Installer.app or whatever. Then we're talking.

Posted at 4:23PM on Oct 11th 2007 by yacoub

6. Wow. If it's obviously this simple, why on earth does apple go out of their way to cripple the calendar app?
Maybe they are going to start selling calendar events from the iTunes store or something...
.99 to buy the event, and .99 to edit it! Sweet!

Posted at 4:25PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Jon

7. This feature epitomizes my disappointment with the touch. While Apple has made compromises for "lesser" products before, to my knowledge it has never engaged in direct software crippling to differentiate products. I always associate such malarky with Microsoft.

Posted at 4:34PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Jesse Gillespie

8. @6 - My guess is that the decision to make it non-editable was to maintain consistency across the iPod line. iPods since gen 2 or so have had the ability to read calendars and address books from Macs but not write to them. So I think Apple's just trying to be consistent:

- All iPhones can read/write cals and addresses
- All iPods can read only.

I'm sure the distinction will go away someday, I guess the question is do we have to wait for the iPod "classics" to be discontinued first and replaced with an all-touch lineup.

Posted at 4:38PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Frank

9. yeah really. epic lame apple. thats not a bug. thats intentional crippling. WHY?!

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 11th 2007 by a ham sandwich

10. @Frank: My iPod has the ability to write to address book entries (and add new ones, and sync with my Y! address book).

All of those things I would have expected to be iPhone-only, but they're not. The only thing I can't do is add/edit calendar events. It's just plain bizarre.

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Mo

11. Oh Apple - you are failing so hard lately. How perfectly shitty.

Posted at 4:42PM on Oct 11th 2007 by db cooper

12. i agree with poster #5.

i got all excited when i saw the title of this blog post, but then was disappointed when i saw that it requires fooling with jailbreak and lines of code.

i guess it's harder to brick an ipod touch since there's no sim and all that, but i'm still wary of messing with the code and all that.

i'll wait until there's a nice one-click solution that does all this for me.

Posted at 4:45PM on Oct 11th 2007 by cozart

13. respectForCustomers

Posted at 4:47PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Signed

14. Funny, playing in the playlist, I was able to change the apps that are in the buttonBar (even bring the number of icons to 9 - but they are overlapping and not scaling down as in the Mac OS Dock). But I never was able to add the calendar feature that would allow me to add an appointment...

Posted at 4:48PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Alt

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Posted at 4:48PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Signed

16. Put a the boolean sibling editableUserData under "capabilities" and set it to true -> gave me editable calendar ;)
editableUserData under "root" is not working

Posted at 4:51PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Andi

17. @16 Thankyou, the article was so vauge.... Like no one verified it.

Posted at 4:59PM on Oct 11th 2007 by helfire

18. http://www.touchdev.net/wiki/Jailbreak_Guide
Yes there is a published hack.

Posted at 5:01PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Malcolm Taylor

19. The semi-official word from Apple about the missing Calendar app was that it was caused by a bug, and would be re-enabled in a future firmware version.

This sort of thing happens in development all the time. You're coming up on the release date and there's a critical bug in one feature, so instead of letting the release slip, you put in a quick hack to disable the buggy feature, and ship anyway.

So yeah. It might work fine for you. Or it might cause some problem that'll crash your iPod or corrupt your data. Caveat hacker.

Posted at 5:20PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Charles Miller

20. - 7

Actually Apple has always crippled PowerPC iMac/iBook graphics cards to prevent dual-displays and offer mirroring only so it's not a new trick.

The sting was that for the first week after release Apple's web site listed calendar entry as one of the uses of the on-screen keyboard.

Posted at 5:44PM on Oct 11th 2007 by mrtotes