I think the pay-for upgrade was just over the top and unnecessary. It should have clearly been free. Thankfully no one else if following. Could you imagine if PS3 Updates, Xbox 360 Updates ,or Wii updates started costing money?
don't be ignorant. Software updates from apple are free and always will be. Its the new software that doesn't exist that iPod touch users pay for. Your statement then implies everything off xbox live is free, all of its games and everything. Which obviously is not the case.
That's exactly it, the apps they were charging for weren't new at all! They just released them for the iPod Touch, likely without even changing a single line of code. They had been on the iPhone since inception.
That charge for the update is not Apple's choice. They are required by law to charge for that update. Users of the iPhone do not have to pay because it is figured into their monthly bills. The same thing happened when the 802.11n routers were released and Apple had to charge for the internal Extreme Card updates. It's a stupid law, but they have to follow it.
^, I can't believe you drank that Cool-Aid from Apple. I guess the Microsoft fanboys that drew up Sarbanes-Oxley act excluded the Zune from that requirement, along with the Blu Ray 2.0 update for the PS3, and numerous cell phone firmware updates that add functionality like Rev A. for CDMA. I suppose free map packs are out of the question too. Some people are so damn guillable.
Lets go back to the xbox 360 example. You can buy it with a 120 gb harddrive. You can also get it without. But since it exists, it should be shipped on all models for free?
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I think the pay-for upgrade was just over the top and unnecessary. It should have clearly been free. Thankfully no one else if following. Could you imagine if PS3 Updates, Xbox 360 Updates ,or Wii updates started costing money?
don't be ignorant. Software updates from apple are free and always will be. Its the new software that doesn't exist that iPod touch users pay for. Your statement then implies everything off xbox live is free, all of its games and everything. Which obviously is not the case.
duh.
That's exactly it, the apps they were charging for weren't new at all! They just released them for the iPod Touch, likely without even changing a single line of code. They had been on the iPhone since inception.
That charge for the update is not Apple's choice. They are required by law to charge for that update. Users of the iPhone do not have to pay because it is figured into their monthly bills. The same thing happened when the 802.11n routers were released and Apple had to charge for the internal Extreme Card updates. It's a stupid law, but they have to follow it.
^, I can't believe you drank that Cool-Aid from Apple. I guess the Microsoft fanboys that drew up Sarbanes-Oxley act excluded the Zune from that requirement, along with the Blu Ray 2.0 update for the PS3, and numerous cell phone firmware updates that add functionality like Rev A. for CDMA. I suppose free map packs are out of the question too.
Some people are so damn guillable.
Lets go back to the xbox 360 example. You can buy it with a 120 gb harddrive. You can also get it without. But since it exists, it should be shipped on all models for free?
Why should the model be different for hardware?
LOL