Apple Is Out Of Control

I’m a PC and Apple fan. I think the PC has it’s uses just as much as any Mac based computer, but when it comes to Apple and it’s electronics, I’m not so convinced Apple love it’s customers as much as they say they do.

Steve Jobs needs more money

I recently upgraded to a iPod Touch 2G and soon found out that an update (3.0) is coming sometime soonish in June or July 2009, whatever. The remarkable thing is that Apple are going to charge iPod Touch users $10 to upgrade, fucking awesome. But did I mention that iPhone users get the update for free? Oh, I just did.

As If selling my kidney to purchase the thing wasn’t enough, now they want more money just so I can get a few improvements and bluetooth functionality which by the way was already included in the thing. Yet again, awesome.

I think Apple is out of control. It’s like selling a mobile phone and making people pay for additional features like SMS, MMS, Wi-Fi that competitors already give you out of the box.

Sure Apple makes awesome looking and functional products, but what the fuck are they doing? Although it’s plausible that software was still being developed to make bluetooth functionality work well, why the price tag for iPod Touch users and not iPhone users? Oh, is it because I didn’t pay the extra few hundred for an iPhone with features that I don’t need?

I am going to pay for the upgrade, but not without a rant about it on this blog. When you think about it, you’re really paying for bluetooth functionality for $10. I’m not surprised really, Apple loves to profit off people even in a severe economic downturn. There better be some awesome applications that use bluetooth (if Apple haven’t severely blocked it’s use) or I’ll go postal, seriously.

A thought: It would be awesome to tether my 3G mobile phone to my iPod Touch 2G via bluetooth instead of Wi-Fi, would be very useful considering my phone doesn’t have Wi-Fi.

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