Not really - the original 5G iPods have all the functionality of the 5.5G (I think) such as games through a free update, so I don't really know where you're going with that..
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iPod touch :( Dirty Money Making Scheme Protest
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Not really - the original 5G iPods have all the functionality of the 5.5G (I think) such as games through a free update, so I don't really know where you're going with that..
you should want that... Microsoft never charges for software updates...
apple is the only major hardware company in the world that charges their consumers for this kind of stuff. they just make cool enough stuff to blind consumers in their nickle and diming.
Please people! Click to here to shut up. Doesn't it eventually get old?
They had to charge everyone! It was the law! Read some more forums around here and get your facts straight! Every new operating system Microsoft comes out with you have to pay for! Every new piece of software you have to pay for! Please, by Almighty Steve Jobs, just give up! There not going to budge, and if you hate it so much, go Jailbreak it! Live in the present, not the past, and move on!
Get in (complain about it). Get out (eventually download it) and get on with your life! (Jailbreak back to 1.1.1!) If all your trying to do is end up like an early-adopter for an iPhone and get a few bucks back, go ahead! Just stop complaining, this thread should be deleted.
Perhaps ahead of the iSDK realize Apple wants 3rd parties to see that consumers are going to expect a lot for a little price.
Think outside the box once and a while...
Oh, and I'd say it is a sad thing, that $20 charge... I guess you should have just got an iPhone to begin with?
Think outside the box once and a while...
Oh, and I'd say it is a sad thing, that $20 charge... I guess you should have just got an iPhone to begin with?
No. Next point.
Ah ... I see you've spammed the forum with the same point repeatedly, exhaustively and boringly. If you think these variations on "put up or shut up, Apple will do whatever they want regardless of what you do or say or feel about it" is actually helping to promote the image of the company, you need to go back to fanboi school.
Early Adopters.....
Well, If this is going to be how Apple treats Early Adopters from now on, I simply won't buy any of their products until ALL the updates become available. I am holding off (with much difficulty) on the MacBook Air because i have a feeling in 3 years there will be a revision Z with 1TB of storage 8 GB of RAM and the fastest processor availble, all in a 0.2 of an Inch. If anything, the update should be Costly for the New People, not as expensive but still NOT FREE. The update should be cheaper than $24.99 (AUS) $19.99 (USOA) and should even be FREE to the Early Adopters. WE have already tolerated the Dark Screen Video Issue & Calendar Adding Error by waiting for Firmware Updates. I think that Apple should offer TWO Versions, One FREE with the HomeScreen Customization and Notes. The $10.00 Version with Mail, Stocks, Weather and the other App excluding Notes. APPLE we all Have NOTES on the Previous iPods we have bought, so why not the TOUCH. As for the Home Screen Customization, that should have been there in the first place. I have $24.99 for the Update OR something else. The iPhone Update is FREE and adds the same Home Screen Features + Bug Fixes that are always un-noticeable to the untrained eye, The iPod Touch Update should be FREE with the Home Screen Customization + Themes + Notes + Bug Fixes but NOT with Mail and whatever extra Apps there are. Thus shutting up people (who won't give up protesting on Apple dot Com after Several Discussions have been closed. This is just my two cents) I am posting this from my iPod and wanted to put this on my HomeScreen (The Site) and click on it whenever I wanted to check for Replies or News. This is unavailable because Apple have been greedy in asking for $419.00 (AUS) + $24.99 (AUS) = $444.00 (AUS Dollar) all for an iPod with a touchscreen crammed in the face and a Copy/Paste job of the iPhone OS to it. COME ON APPLE. Make it either Cheaper/FREE or in the TWO versions.
I usually stand by Apple with people bad-mouthing the 'Yuppy-Style' products but NOW i am furious and never expected Apple to do something like this.
Cheers
Well, If this is going to be how Apple treats Early Adopters from now on, I simply won't buy any of their products until ALL the updates become available. I am holding off (with much difficulty) on the MacBook Air because i have a feeling in 3 years there will be a revision Z with 1TB of storage 8 GB of RAM and the fastest processor availble, all in a 0.2 of an Inch. If anything, the update should be Costly for the New People, not as expensive but still NOT FREE. The update should be cheaper than $24.99 (AUS) $19.99 (USOA) and should even be FREE to the Early Adopters. WE have already tolerated the Dark Screen Video Issue & Calendar Adding Error by waiting for Firmware Updates. I think that Apple should offer TWO Versions, One FREE with the HomeScreen Customization and Notes. The $10.00 Version with Mail, Stocks, Weather and the other App excluding Notes. APPLE we all Have NOTES on the Previous iPods we have bought, so why not the TOUCH. As for the Home Screen Customization, that should have been there in the first place. I have $24.99 for the Update OR something else. The iPhone Update is FREE and adds the same Home Screen Features + Bug Fixes that are always un-noticeable to the untrained eye, The iPod Touch Update should be FREE with the Home Screen Customization + Themes + Notes + Bug Fixes but NOT with Mail and whatever extra Apps there are. Thus shutting up people (who won't give up protesting on Apple dot Com after Several Discussions have been closed. This is just my two cents) I am posting this from my iPod and wanted to put this on my HomeScreen (The Site) and click on it whenever I wanted to check for Replies or News. This is unavailable because Apple have been greedy in asking for $419.00 (AUS) + $24.99 (AUS) = $444.00 (AUS Dollar) all for an iPod with a touchscreen crammed in the face and a Copy/Paste job of the iPhone OS to it. COME ON APPLE. Make it either Cheaper/FREE or in the TWO versions.
I usually stand by Apple with people bad-mouthing the 'Yuppy-Style' products but NOW i am furious and never expected Apple to do something like this.
Cheers
Aha...
How can Buying an iPhone be better????
I wanted an iPhone but swapped to an iPod Touch because I would've had to wait until 2008 (mid or late) to get the iPhone as I am in Australia, by then Apple would have Firmware 2.0.1 or something at least. And it would be double the price in Aus than it is in the US. I saw it going to be retailed for $1500.00 (AUS). Thats almost the price of a top-end balckberry and they can do much more than the iPhone.
Maybe Apple AU could make the update FREE for Australian Purchases Only?
Thats just my two cents.
Cheers
How can Buying an iPhone be better????
I wanted an iPhone but swapped to an iPod Touch because I would've had to wait until 2008 (mid or late) to get the iPhone as I am in Australia, by then Apple would have Firmware 2.0.1 or something at least. And it would be double the price in Aus than it is in the US. I saw it going to be retailed for $1500.00 (AUS). Thats almost the price of a top-end balckberry and they can do much more than the iPhone.
Maybe Apple AU could make the update FREE for Australian Purchases Only?
Thats just my two cents.
Cheers
Yesterday I was pissed, and there is no way i'm an Apple Fan Boy. You guys literally come here to complain, and its up to the few that come here and talk about the good things to quiet you guys down. I was furious with Apple, but hey, if you just float with the boat, its better then standing upright and trying to fight back. If you feel so badly about, you can go spam Steve Jobs' email inbox.
I agree with you about the price difference. Yeah, notes should have been on there before, and yeah, Apple's free 1.1.3 update should not been as crippled as it was. Its kind of ironic, if you think about it, that Apple gives you a free update to go pay money to go buy Rental Movies.
But hey, if Almighty Steve Jobs came out tomorrow and said that there giving away free iPods, people would complain about it. It's life everyone, and lets just deal with it. Yeah, it would be nice if the give us a sort of refund for it or they apologize and give us an IOU for future Apps and such. But me? I'm ready for the SDK.
The better quote of the day.
I'd love to live in a black and white world where a company can do either pure good or pure evil. Some can't accept that others can like a company's products but be dissatisfied with some of its decisions. If someone voices their opinion, they're a whiner or cry baby and should go some where else. It always has to be an extreme position -- love it all or leave it. If some other company did something similar there'd be a cute commercial with two guys with a white background.
Gaining market share and recognition comes with a huge price for the fan boys; not everyone is going to share their extreme idolization. Its ashame Apple makes such killer products. New customers are coming and they might not agree with everything. Sorry ...
to all you who say you would pay 2 bucks for something and this this brings me to this article when they annouced the new airports and people complained again..
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/270100/
No joke. That's the legitimate thing to complain about out of the keynote: Release of Time Capsule still without the promised support of Wireless backup on an AEBS...
It's technology. If they would have upgraded the iPod Touch and then charged previous owners for the update, would you be complaining? Yes. It's constant. It's annoying.
I would like to know where you are getting information from that the iPhone will be available in Canada in 2012. You could have waited, but instead you decided to buy an iPod Touch.
They should have and they did. It's updating your iPod. No it's not a specification/hardware upgrade, but it upgrade's the software. It adds stuff to it. The iPhone already had all these applications, that is why Apple is charging people to pay $20 for the iPod Touch update.
Ok, we've established that Apple was within their rights to update and change for it, but $20 is a big upfront fee that really feels like a slap in the face.
And I don't even own an iPod Touch
Don't give them your money. Not for the apps, not for their songs, not for their TV, or movies or anything. Find other places to get what you want. It's the only way to get them to treat their customers with any sort of respect.
Screw Apple. I'm done with them.
Screw Apple. I'm done with them.
How dare you tell us what to do with our money. Who do you think you are? For your information I had a jailbroken iPod touch where all I installed were the 5 apps and now that I have the $20 update and the improvements compared to the jailbroken version have been unbelievable. Before all I could view in mail were ~20 e-mails and now I have access to every single one. Also, IIRC before none of the folders came up that I had made in Gmail and it would screw up multiple other things. It all works now so perfectly its amazing.
I noticed that. I also noticed that they have yet to charge my paypal account even though I got the $20 update yesterday (regretfully- I just wanted those features WITHOUT having to hack). Very curious.
updates
if it is the law... why doesnt microsoft charge for software updates... why doesnt intel charge for bios updates...
service packs are about 100000000000more valuable to develop... yet they are free.
the problem is we are not talking about a new piece of software... we are talking about something that already existed... it had already been developed for iphone... and cost tens of millions of dollars less to develop than any update any where else.
basically... apple is selectively charging people to turn on a light switch
i suppose you also think it was the law to charge for 802.11n... really... than jeez man... every company should get audited b/c NOBODY charges for that kind of simple mediocre stuff besides APPLE.
im not saying apple doesn't make cool stuff... they do..
but if you cant see how incredibly shady apple is from a b2c perspective in some respects... i respectfully say that you are out of your mind.