Forty-Eight Hours

Okay. I lasted forty-eight hours (approximately) before caving in and sinking my teeth into the iPod Touch Software Update. Eeg. I guess forty-eight is a higher number than all the numbers lower than forty-eight, anyway. So there's that.

But here's a tidbit. When I made the purchase, there was not a single thing downloaded or synced with my Touch.

I'll let that sink in for a minute while I have a sip of coffee.

Of course, some of you may already be familiar with this process, but I was not.

Because apparently, I already had the software that I just purchased. All purchasing it did was unlock it on my Touch. Because when I touched my Touch, there it was, even before it had completely synced the other stuff I had just downloaded from the iTunes store. I had mail and stocks and weather and maps (and of course the first thing I did was go to maps and yes, it found me right on my street in my town even without GPS and that is pretty cool even if it really isn't twenty smokes of cool). Um. So. What I'm thinking is, the next jailbreak? It will break the twenty dollar fee as well as opening up the other apps. Meaning it'll unlock the software update.

For some reason it bugs me that Apple loaded those onto my iPod without my permission. Like, you know, I didn't tell them they could suck so much as a kilobyte of my Touchspace without asking me first--with apps that they simply don't know if I ever intend to buy. I mean, if they were open and ready to go... or if I had the option of deleting them, that would be one thing... but they were there, sitting, waiting for me. They were apps in a coma. They were hostages. "Pay a fee and we'll let you have your mail."

And it makes me wonder... is there something else on my Touch that I don't know about? Is there a Touch version of GarageBand just waiting to be unlocked from iTunes? (Okay, that was a joke, you know? No hate mail, please.)

But it does make me curious and hesitant and oddly un-applish when I discover something like this. I just feel like since I don't have an iPhone, I kind of suck, maybe because Apple looks at the revenue stream as largely over... but that's ridiculous and they should know it. If the iTunes store didn't suck on the Touch (forgive me, it does kind of suck, and until I can rent movies directly onto my Touch, it will continue to suck), I could be an even bigger revenue stream than they dream about in their most deepest dimmest wettest dreams on warm summer nights on the beaches of Cupertino.

Gawd. A person shouldn't post blog posts after the dinner hour. A person's blood sugar is likely all out of whack.

Blessings on all of you. Especially those who simply can't resist.

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PS: Guess what? I still can't copy and paste. How ridiculous is that? When I can copy and paste, will it cost me another twenty bucks to get the software to let me do it? Yeeks.