What is demo.app???

[anim8or]

Just what it says on the tin!

What on earth is demo.app on the ipod touch???

CAn i delete it or do i need to keep it on there?

 

[Kaspers]

You can remove without having problems.

 

[anim8or]

but what is it???

 

[Vigilante]

I think it's a space filler for when they are installing software on the iPod.

 

[XheartcoreboyX]

Customize.app adds this to let you put spaces between apps ...

 

[Vigilante]

Nope, it's there before you put in Customize.

 

[Lixivial]

It works in a similar fashion to how the "Demo Mode" "Demo" folder/file works on video-capable iPods.

If there's a file in root's home directory called Demo.mov, it will play it in a continuous loop. The only difference between the iPod classic's mode and the iPhone/iPod touch's implementation is that the classic iPod has a timeout of about 2 minutes.

Launching it directly would be pretty useless, and so there's no reason to place it on your SpringBoard. Deleting it would be a bit useless, too, as it doesn't take up a lot of space, but it wouldn't hurt anything.