New iPod touch Applications At todays MacWorld COnference, Steve Jobs announced that all new iPod touches will start to have all the new applications announced today pre-installed, but owners that purchased before the installation would have to pay $20 for the applications. i wonder when Amazon would get the ipod touches loaded with the new apps.What do you guys think of the new applications? New iPod touch Applications At todays MacWorld COnference, Steve Jobs announced that all new iPod touches will start to have all the new applications announced today pre-installed, but owners that... » Read More New iPod touch Applications At todays MacWorld COnference, Steve Jobs announced that all new iPod touches will start to have all the new applications announced today pre-installed, but owners that purchased before the installation would have to pay $20 for the applications. i wonder when Amazon would get the ipod touches loaded with the new apps.What do you guys think of the new applications? « Show Less
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Yea, that's what I meant. The ipod touches that are purhcased after today will haev the Applications installed.I wonder if any of the ones on amazon have any pre-installed. I don't feel like paying $20, but I don't want to jailbreak without knowing full details.---EDIT:Hmm.. i see the price dropped some more. maybe they are compensating with a $20 price drop. Let me ask CS and find out.
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I am ready to by my ipod touch, but I can wait a while if the new applications are forthcoming. How can we find out?
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:( now it says they do not ship with the other applications. I wonder if it would be the same great price when their shipments DO have the applications.
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It'd probably take awhile till they ship out the NEWER iPod Touch for the same great price. Haha, it's not even listed on amazon.com yet.
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Just ask them. Apple's products shouldn't have any problems, and the same warranty is given no matter where you buy the iPod touch, as long as it is an Apple Authorized Retailer. I'd trust Amazon with you purchase. And there's almost no learning curve pass 5 minutes. Especially with the touch, it should be very simple.
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After posting my earlier question I called the Apple Store and was told that they could ship a fully loaded iPod Touch (with the new applications) today. The price would still be $299.At their website they are showing the new apps to be email, notes, maps, weather, etc.I have emailed Amazon to ask if they have the same offer.
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I am considering paying full price at Apple Store because I don't know how to appeal to Amazon if I have problems with the iTouch. Also since this is my first iPod I already have a high learning curve and don't need to be loading additional applications.Can anyone tell me about Amazon guarantees?
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Sorry, CS Graduate Assistant, but you're wrong. The new iPod Touches come with the software package for FREE. So if you bought one the day before Macworld, too bad, if you want the software application package, prepare to pay $20.
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It's the same hardware, just different programs and applications. So in a sense, the price of an iPod touch went down $20.
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You will end up paying 300 plus tax. Which is 60 or more than the price here. You are saving 40+ dollars.The apps are easily installed from iTunes, and if you don't want to pay you can just jailbreak it. But i don't know how to do that.
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That one on the photo look like the New version to me. Probably a newest version will come out ? But, if you are interested in buy a Mac, it will be a good choice. If you have an Amazon store card buy it because you will get up to a year without in interest charge . That's how I bought mine. No problems so far . Good Luck !
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The Apple Website says as of 6pm today all new Imac's are preinstalled with Leopard. I wonder when Amazon will start doing the same.
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The iPod touch is more portable, more durable and has a great OS with tons of apps, and supports a huge variety of accessories. Archos has a lousy reliability track record, an ugly user interface, and although it does support more codecs you have to purchase them separately, and they may require processing anyway. I'm certain the iPod touch will be updated, but whether Archos will support this in the future is anyone's guess.
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They haven't updated it in almost 2 years so if they don't change it at all we can assume that it may be discontinued, because the iPod Touch is expected to get a 128gb model. Personally I would rather pay $250 for 160gb rather than $400 for 128gb.
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I WAS USING 10.3 on my white macbook 5.2 and I wanted to upgrade to 10.8 and I had to upgrade to 10.6 before it would let me upgrade to 10.8. I went on amazon and found a used 10.6 which was about 1/3 of the price of 10.6 new. then I went to apple apps store and bought and downed loaded 10.8 and everything was fine.
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haha go ahead and vent :)If I were you I would just wait. But dont buy the AppleCare for your 80gig. Just use it till it dies and isnt covered by warranty, and get whichever new one comes out. However next time check out macrumors and they have a buying guide, it shows you the past "update" history of the various mac products and gives you a small bit of advice on wether to buy or not. I'm going to stick with my 30gb for now too. Maybe give it to a family memeber later and buy a new one later :)
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I did the same thing ordered on the 12th @ $299. Hopefully the iPod will qualify for Amazon's pre-order price guarantee where we get the lowest price the item sells for, since we did pre-order them. Mine has shipped out already so I can't cancel and re-order.
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1) Price (most comparable iPod Touch with 4" screen is $299 vs MG $150)2) Expandable Memory (iPod Touch is fixed). MG comes with an 8 GB Micro SD card that can be swapped out for others to include a whole collection of games/movies/songs etc...You can have a collection of 64GB cards with different downloaded apps for your MG3) Access to Google Play Store with its 60k+ freemium games vs Apple App Store for iPod Touch4) MG has a proprietary Family Collaboration System: "Digital Wallet" (Spend Smart MasterCard) and "Remote Trust" (parental notifications - tells you all the activities on the unit (downloads/time spent). iPod Touch has neither of these. Hope that helps! 1) Price (most comparable iPod Touch with 4" screen is $299 vs MG $150)2) Expandable Memory (iPod Touch is fixed). MG comes with an 8 GB Micro SD card that can be swapped out for others to include a whole collection of games/movies/songs etc...You can have a collection of 64GB cards with different downloaded apps for your MG3) Access to Google Play Store with its 60k+ freemium games vs Apple App Store for iPod Touch4) MG has a proprietary Family Collaboration System: "Digital Wallet" (Spend Smart MasterCard) and "Remote Trust" (parental... » Read More 1) Price (most comparable iPod Touch with 4" screen is $299 vs MG $150)2) Expandable Memory (iPod Touch is fixed). MG comes with an 8 GB Micro SD card that can be swapped out for others to include a whole collection of games/movies/songs etc...You can have a collection of 64GB cards with different downloaded apps for your MG3) Access to Google Play Store with its 60k+ freemium games vs Apple App Store for iPod Touch4) MG has a proprietary Family Collaboration System: "Digital Wallet" (Spend Smart MasterCard) and "Remote Trust" (parental notifications - tells you all the activities on the unit (downloads/time spent). iPod Touch has neither of these. Hope that helps! « Show Less
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To the OP:Apple routinely unveils new products and upgrades in early September every year. Buying an iPod in August when there was a very real potential of an upgrade coming out in Sept (the old ipods hadn't been updated in 2 years) was a bad move, obviously. oh well- obviously that ipod is worth $350 to you so it's not like you lose anything from it- you just missed out on a better deal. You'll know better next time.
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The current release is iOS8.1 When you get your new iPod touch and connect it to wifi, you can download the latest release regardless which was on your device when you received it from Amazon or Best Buy. The latest release will have the most features, bug fixes, and security updates.
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As soon as Amazon runs out of stock of the OS 2.xx iPod Touch, they should start stocking those with 3.0. Might be a while. I got mine long after OS 2.2.1 was released, and it came with OS 1.1 in it! By long, I mean many months.
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all iPod touch 2G comes with software 2+...so you couldn't have gotten 1.1...also when 3.0 comes pre-installed i think it will cost more too..
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No online collaboration either :( They have some new pay-per-use thing 'in the works' (according to a contact) but by the next version they want all person-to-person stuff to be a paid service.They will be indistinguishable from Apple soon, even the help sections will be a paid for 'service' arrangement.
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Agreed. I love amazon but this is ridiculous! You can buy a brand new third gen nano with 8gb (twice the memory of this) for $199 online at apple.com. And they're selling the 2nd gen ones as refurbished for $99.
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I would think that the next iMac shipment from Apple to all of it's re-sellers would include Leopard installed since they are available that way now at the Apple Store (and have been so awhile I believe). I've got a 24 incher on order too and am more concerned about that $100 rebate from Amazon which apparently expires next Monday 12/3. Amazon says it may be 3-5 weeks until this this model ships. I'm hoping they will show up a little early...like this week, before this rebate expires. Otherwise I may cancel and wait until after the first of the year to re-order.
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Apple has in the past offered a free upgrade for a new OS if the new system was purchased up to 3 months prior. Counting the months...July, August, September...nope, I would say you are probably out of luck for a free upgrade.