Maybe if Apple had released 2.0 early they wouldn't have such a heavy load on their servers all at once? 
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iPod Touch 2.0 Firmware Update (Almost) Live
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Exactly - YouTube on my Touch is like WTF, why not just built in Flash support and be done with it.
That is crap. We have gotten software updates from Apple for a very long time with normal iPods where you don't have to pay for them at all. Why should it change for the touch? They just found another way to make us pay more money.
P.S.- Apple is doing really poorly this morning
Apple and SJ can go to hell!!!!!!! Just because I don't run out to get the ***** iPhone I get treated like a second class citizen. I am so pissed right now!!! I should go buy a Zune just to spite Apple. Anyone know if Apple stock has fallen? And if it has Apple deserves it. I'm pissed, can't you tell.
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Just a guess, but I'd think that iTunes would tell you you're already up to date on 2.0. You'd probably have to downgrade to 1.1.4 and then purchase 2.0 through the link.
Haha, your posts make me laugh - just relax. It's going to happen, they are having some technical difficulties. It has nothing to do with being a second class citizen, just that their resources are tapped right now. Go buy a Zune, who cares. It is evident from your comments that you are going to rant and rave regardless of the situation. I would prefer you do that on a Zune forum (so I don't have to see it).
My god, what's with you people? Why is it soo important to have the update first thing in the morning?
Go to work or read a book. By the end of the day you can come back and download the update fast and you are good to go. Really, IT IS that simple.
It was written into one of the digital communication acts by Congress.
The difference is that iTouch has WiFi and is a communication device.
Very technical legal issues that do not apply to the "normal" iPods.
Don was one of the people who spent hours trying to get MobileMe to work. I imagine he's finally had enough of this BS.
He's right. If you think this is in any way excusable, I would like to have some of what you are smoking. This whole rollout has been incompetent. MobileMe didn't work, and then when it did it borked my calendars. Then the morons put up an app store, but didn't put up the software update you needed to run the apps. Then they say they put it out right at the point of highest worldwide demand (instead of rolling it out one international store at a time along with the 3G release) and you still can't get it unless you engage in software piracy. Added to that, the company has released virtually no information apart from (it's taking us longer than we thought). It's a complete fiasco.
There is no excuse for this. People put aside time to upgrade their machines and then it doesn't work. Sorry, not good enough. In no other business where a company had months to plan a rollout would this be even remotely acceptable, and it is the same here.
Don't make excuses for Apple. They deserve a kick in the pants for wasting people's time and bandwidth because they simply couldn't organize the rollout properly.
I loathe it too, but:
1) It's a recent law.
2) It only applies to updates that "add new features". So, standard bug-fix updates don't get charged.
3) It only applies to US corporations, so Sony can add all kinds of features to their PS3 via firmware and not have to charge but Apple does.
Ok, I lied about going to get a Zune. But seriously these past few days of Apple releases have been major flops. The head editor of Cnet was just on Fox News saying that AT&T is blaming Apple for the iPhone activation servers crashing and Apple is blaming AT&, and that if it's anything like the Mobile Me launch people shouldn't even bother to go and get an iPhone for the next 24-48 hours. I mean come on. People are paying $200-$300 for a phone and can't even use it. All I'm saying is that Apple hasn't been realistic about its release plans, and then they don't even admit that they screwed up and it just pisses me off.
Don
I can see the update but when i click on it to learn more, it's about to bring me to the itunes store, but it fails... It says the " the itunes store is temporarily unavailable"
Could you keep me updated and tell me when i could finally update my ipod touch
Update: Now on my itunes it doesn't even show that there is an update.
BTW I'm in Canada
Could you keep me updated and tell me when i could finally update my ipod touch
Update: Now on my itunes it doesn't even show that there is an update.
BTW I'm in Canada
Is anyone else getting exactly 18 KB/s? BECAUSE, that's how friggin slow it is for me.
BTW my connection is 3Mbps. not dialup from the early 90's.
BTW my connection is 3Mbps. not dialup from the early 90's.