Ahhhhhggggg!! This is the way it works in the electronics game. This has kind of been said before, but I will try again. If I bought a Macbook in June, it came with Tiger and iWork 06. A few months later, that same Macbook, at the same price, came with Leopard and iWork 08. I would have to pay to upgrade my software to Leopard and iWork 08 despite the fact that new purchasers were getting that software for free. How is this any different??? New purchasers will ALWAYS get more for the same amount of money. If you don't like this model, wait until all the software that will ever be released gets released before buying anythingLet me know how that works out for you.
It's not that people aren't listening to you, it's just that your analogy isn't accurate. With the Touch, it is NOT the case that the future buyer receives a newer version of an existing application that they wish to charge the original buyers an upgrade fee for; that situation is quite reasonable and I don't think many would complain.
In this case, the future buyer is receiving an application set free of charge, for which there had been no prior version available on the existing product;
and for which they intend to charge the original buyers a fee. And this is despite the fact that the said application set actually existed during the original product launch, but was not included on the product.
An Macbook analogy would look like this:
1) Entirely new Macbook and iMac computers are announced. Models are touted to improve over time as new software packages are added.
2) iMac comes with a set of 3D modeling applications which are not available on the Macbook.
3) Later on in the year, not having updated any computer models, Apple decides to include the original 3D application set with all current shipping Macbooks in addition to the iMac, while charging existing same-model Macbook owners a $129 upgrade, despite the fact that the 3d software package was available at the time the macbook was originally sold.
See the difference?