Update June 2010: upgrade to iOS 4 is free to owners of second and third generation iPod touch. It is unclear whether future updates will be free as well.
Owners of an iPod touch knows something that few other owners of iPod or iPhone know unless their attention very close when Apple releases the new software for these devices: major software upgrades that are free for iPhone users cost US $ 10-$ 20 for iPod touch owners.
The question that many owners of iPod touch asking is: why?
The answer has to do with u.s. accounting and financial regulations.
The need for the Office, according to Apple, and a number of interview by analysts of various new outlets, has to do with how Apple recognizes revenues derived from iPod touch in its financial statements.
Record revenue for the iPod touch at the moment is taken and considers the device, and rightly so, as a non-subscription product.(As I understand it, non-subscription products will need to have the revenue they generate reports when it hits the books to avoid execution run afoul of the law).
You don't need to upload to Apple iPhone or Apple TV software updates because it accounts for those two devices like subscription products, means that it puts the revenue they generate about her books over time, rather than all at once.
Accounting of United States Law requires non-subscription devices that are upgraded to have a cost associated with the update of Apple and many analysts d interpretation of the law. upgrading to version 2.0 of the system operating cost 10 dollars, as did the upgrade to 3.0.
Some observers have suggested that most suspect Apple will charge the rate why not make ongoing revenue from iPod touch users, as is the case for iPhone users, where Gets a share of the monthly invoice of AT&T user thanks to the terms of its exclusivity agreement with AT&T.
While this idea has a vague ring of plausibility, I haven't come across anyone with a deep knowledge of accounting and financial legislation put any credibility in this opinion.
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