All of this is very interesting, but charging the Touch users for this update is just like charging for the iPhone apps; the update has no business costing money.
Sony updates the PSP firmware, MS updates the Zune firmware & pushes out stuff like IE7 and SP2 for XP, and all of those come with new features. Service Pack 2's firewall and security features have no way to grant MS further income from the OS. So why haven't these companies gotten slapped with the legal problems Apple 'claims' they would be faced with if they updated the Touch for free?
There are only two explanations:
A) Apple was incredibly stupid, and accounted for the Touch completely differently than anybody in the entire tech industry does for their products and/or did not realize its potential (If you think this is likely, I have some real estate in Florida you might be interested in...)
B) Pure money grubbing, maliciously planned from the start when they decided to account for it the way they did.
If you seriously believe this to be anything but option B, get your head out of the sand. Have previous iPod firmware updates cost any money, even if they added new features? Absolutely not. Obviously Apple knows how to do this RIGHT, but for some inexplicable reason decided not to in the case of the iPod Touch.
Apple needs to be called on the carpet for this, big time.
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Josh Warner @ Mar 6th 2008 3:09PM
All of this is very interesting, but charging the Touch users for this update is just like charging for the iPhone apps; the update has no business costing money.
Sony updates the PSP firmware, MS updates the Zune firmware & pushes out stuff like IE7 and SP2 for XP, and all of those come with new features. Service Pack 2's firewall and security features have no way to grant MS further income from the OS. So why haven't these companies gotten slapped with the legal problems Apple 'claims' they would be faced with if they updated the Touch for free?
There are only two explanations:
A) Apple was incredibly stupid, and accounted for the Touch completely differently than anybody in the entire tech industry does for their products and/or did not realize its potential (If you think this is likely, I have some real estate in Florida you might be interested in...)
B) Pure money grubbing, maliciously planned from the start when they decided to account for it the way they did.
If you seriously believe this to be anything but option B, get your head out of the sand. Have previous iPod firmware updates cost any money, even if they added new features? Absolutely not. Obviously Apple knows how to do this RIGHT, but for some inexplicable reason decided not to in the case of the iPod Touch.
Apple needs to be called on the carpet for this, big time.