ipod touch 3.0 update

[jp_2031]

So, ive read what it does, but for �5.99 it doesn't seam worth it... Infact, it seams rather scandless. Has anyone bought the update? If so, was it really worth the money?

[Gromit]

I've bought it because I like to keep update. Most of the cool stuff is for the phone and will not work on the touch, so if you are happy with what you have got, I'd stick with that.

I've found the search and the copy and paste worth it, I previously could post long links without having to laboriously type them in, now I can copy and paste them. See below:

http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/16598/apple-ip od-touch/&usg=__ksRUn0fXLqxt_nQsoTZqgSfBY0U=&h =491&w=530&sz=38&hl=en&start=2&sig2=mtlnzOwj1A I_TpLoXe8fgw&um=1&tbnid=U4TdF1KLH5LCiM:&tbnh=1 22&tbnw=132&prev=/images%3Fq%3DiPod%2BTouch%26 hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=Tas_SpeGOdad-Abyi NDTDA

Why there is a �6 charge for Touchers when it is free for phoners is a rip off.

[jp_2031]

Thanks

[fo3nix]

Well, it adds extra features that you didn't previous have, so in that respect it's not bad value. I got it free for my iPhone 3G, and it's great. Copy and paste is worth it alone, in my opinion.

Why they charge for it (and why it's not Apple's fault, but US tax law):

After the ENRON scandal, a tax law was introduced to try and stop this kind of abuse, called Sarbanes-Oxley.

What it essentially means is that you can only supply a product to a consumer with features at the time of sale, i.e., before that sale has been put on your accountant's books.

The iPhone and iPod touch (in fact, iPhone and pretty much all the other stuff Apple sell) differ in the way they do the accounting. iPhone sales are accounted for over a several-month period (24 months I think?), which means that an iPhone you buy today isn't fully accounted for by Apple as a complete sale until several months after.

iPod touch is the usual accountancy model (I'm not an accountant to don't know the proper terms), in that once you've bought it, it's recorded by Apple as a complete sale.

This makes some kind of sense for physical objects, but I'm not sure it makes any sense at all for physical objects that receive non-physical (e.g., software) updates, like computers.

If the software updates are just small bug fixes and corrects to the original software without any substantial new features, they can release it and not put the new item on the books.

If the new software includes new features, they have to put these new features on the books as a sale (some small amount), in order to comply with the tax law. This only has to be done if the software is delivered after the product has been accounted for.

[fo3nix]

This is why iPhones get the software for free, and iPod touch don't.

I'm not sure why they don't make iPod touches like the iPhone accounting model too. All previous iPod models are like iPod touch though, so perhaps they viewed them as separate product lines. Also, they have to get their money somehow. If all their accounting was delayed, they wouldn't have money in the present, only down the line.

That's the reason anyway: to comply with tax law. All US-based companies have to do this (under Apple's interpretation of the law, which many other do too).

[jp_2031]

Cool - that all makes scene actually. Thanks :)