Thu
Jun 12
2:31pm
Why I’m happy to pay $10 to improve my iPod Touch
So on Monday Apple confirmed that the iPhone / iPod Touch App Store will go live in a few weeks. They also confirmed that iPod Touch owners like me will have to pay a small charge (US$10) for a software upgrade so that we can download/buy apps from the store, whilst iPhone owners get the upgrade for free.
“Not again?!”, was my first thought, given that I paid $25 for the January upgrade. I have to pay to get into a store in order to buy stuff?
But I flip-flopped (a) when I read this blog post that suggests that 70% of all iPhone apps will be free, and (b) when I realised that any app that I decide to buy will improve the Touch’s usefulness to me.
That’s the beauty of this device. It’s not like the Walkman I bought in 1988 that had a never-to-be-improved set of features. My wife bought me this Touch last November, it became more useful for $25 in January with the software upgrade, and on June 27 it will become more useful again for US$10.
So the $10’s a bargain, in my opinion.