This is classic portfolio management. Apple is positioning the iPod Touch initially as an entertainment device. Apple wants to minimise the potential for the Touch to conflict with the iPhone. By omitting these productivity functions Apple will succeed in the short term, but Apple still leaves the way open to add features back in to the first generation iPod Touch through software/firmware updates.
I thought it was weird, too, that the wifi device also did not have the weather and stock widgets. Apple wants to maintain the disparity between iPod touch and the premium iPhone.
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