What is wrong with this Picture?

Image Capture automatically launches when I attach my new iPod Touch to my Mac. The problem is, of course, that unlike the iPhone, the iPod Touch is not a camera. So why is it reporting itself as a camera to my computer? I haven't personally tried hooking it up to my Windows PC, but TUAW reader Gonzalo reports that Windows recognizes it as an imaging device.
To switch this behavior off in Windows, open Control Panel > Printers and Other Hardware > Scanners and Camera > (your iPod). Right-click the iPod and pick Properties from the contextual menu. Tap on the Events tab and choose "Camera connected" from the "Select an event" pop-up and select Take No Action.
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Image Capture automatically launches when I attach my new iPod Touch to my Mac. The problem is, of course, that unlike the iPhone, the iPod...
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I have the iPod tocuh hooking to XP PC, need it to be seen has a hard drive to sync, still see's it as camera. have canged camera control panels to no action, but it still looks like a camera not a hard drive. Help Please.
November 16 2007 at 6:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI just tried my camera connector as well and got device unsupported. This is too bad - between the connector and the a/v cables, picking up an ipt is suddenly getting more expensive. I do kind of feel like I'm being punished for upgrading in some cold ways, with the ical hobbling the accessory incompatibility. I am grateful for a standard headphone jack, nonetheless.
September 29 2007 at 1:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt would have made more sense if iTouch was a mass storage device rather than an iPhone-like device. Perhaps Apple just modified the iPhone firmware , removed the phone related part and left the remaining as it is.
I don't know if this problem is specific to Apple -- when I connect my Nokia phone to my Mac via USB, it launches iPhoto as if I had connected a camera. Thing is, my phone doesn't have a camera.
Are we moving towards the day when devices without cameras are more rare than those with?
A little bit sloppy for Apple - this is the second instance I've heard of the iPod touch reacting with iPhone dialog boxes.
Adding to the inconsistancies is my iPhone's sporadic interaction with iPhoto (sometimes it launches, sometimes it doesn't) and I start to worry that my favorite computer company is showing slight growing pains.
This is clearly an intended feature so that the iPod Touch can be used with a direct-connect photo printer.
Not sure why anyone thinks that's a bug.
@21:
We are just used to a much higher quality standard based on Apple's previous performance. It's like when a straight-A kid gets a B... it seems way worse than if a kid who is barely passing gets a C. It is all relative.
Anyway, let's just hope that noticeably buggy products do not become the norm for Apple.
I noticed in iphoto 08 that an external hard drive with video on it shows up as a device - maybe it's related?
September 17 2007 at 9:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyJust a guess - perhaps it showes up because it IS designed to dump to a photo program? Keep in mind you CAN sync photos to an iPod. Image capture options pop up when I put a loaded SD card into my computer, for example.
September 17 2007 at 9:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyErica is obviously very intelligent and informative, but it seems to me like her popularity flies in the face of Apple's supposed advantage. She's the most useful writer on this blog lately because she has technical expertise in subverting the intended functionality of the devices of a company lauded for its "it just works" philosophy.
Apple really seems to be embracing that "broken by design" slogan instead these days.
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