Jun 18
After the excitement of the iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade coming out yesterday I decided to upgrade my iPod Touch. After connecting to iTunes I was met with a screen telling me I needed to pay for the upgrade.
Woah hold on are iPod Touch users second class Apple citizens? This was something that Apple had kept very quiet in the run up to the launch of the new OS, but I suppose alarm bells should have rung when there was no beta software for the iPod Touch.
The upgrade costs $9.99 on the US AppStore or £5.99 on the UK one.
iPod Touch OS3.0 Rip-off??
June 18th, 2009 at 9:36 am
I thought this was made clear at the announcement of OS 3.0. I certainly understood that to be the case. Don’t agree with it though.
June 18th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Yes indeed, that has always been the case for the iPod Touch and every major update has been subject to a charge. I don’t claim to understand why but this is apparently a legal necessity.
June 18th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Maybe it was, but I watched the whole Keynote and don’t remember it being mentioned. I may have been a little carried away with all the other things going on.
Darren has also pointed out that there was an iPod Touch beta, but for some reason it was not installed on my device… He also reminded me that the OS2 upgrade was chargeable on the iPod Touch too, a fact I did know.
It is to do with some odd ‘Accounting’ principles see here for an explanation.