Originally Posted By: tfabris

1. It's still not opened up.

They said February from day one of the SDK announcement.

Originally Posted By: tfabris

2. The update costs 20.00.


Thank Sarbanes Oxley. This already happened with the 802.11n upgrade on certain systems not advertised with the feature.

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In order to unlock the pre-standard 802.11n features, you have to pay $5, with Apple saying that they cannot be seen as "giving away an unadvertised new feature of an already sold product without enduring some onerous accounting measures." The thinking, basically is that they would be unfairly recognizing the revenue early, since they hadn't completely delivered the product. The alternative would be to not recognize all the revenue ahead of time, but that presents other problems, and could even be more costly. Thus, consumers get the fun of having to pay extra to upgrade. Yet another fun unexpected consequence from excessive meddling from politicians.


Your tax dollars at work.

Odds are, Apple never really intended to put these features in to the Touch, trying to sell it as an iPod more then anything. The market snapped them up for web terminals like you did, and so Apple is responding to that now. But, they never said you would get such features ahead of time, so bam, you need income to write in the books to push it out.