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Windows Firmware Update 1.3 Added
TechnoPope writes "Apple has finally released the 1.3 Updater for older Windows iPods. It claims UI improvements and longer battery life, but the much desired and asked for on the fly playlist feature is absent. It should also be noted that there is a web petition asking for new firmware for the older generations of iPods." It's a shame that older iPod owners have to live with the functionality that was advertised to them when they bought it.
At least you tried to enter in a coherent debate, so I'll bite on this one.
Actually, it is more like saying that Safari will only run on 10.2 and up. Safari and iPod firmware updates are both free pieces of software that Apple has provided, and they only run on certain generations of machines/operating systems.
At least your analogy wasn't flawed. Thanks for that.
Planned obsolence would be if the original iPods were made poorly with the plan of breaking down in the future in order to force an upgrade to a newer iPod. As an owner of the original 5 GB iPod, I must say that it is still running as good as ever. Apple didn't shit on me one bit. In fact, the firmware updates they've released have made it even more functional with a longer battery life.
Planned obsolescence can be due to the material and physical makeup of any given object, but also because of software. If Microsoft were to make a new version of Word that made files that only worked with other new versions of Word, that'd be planned software obsolescence. But that wasn't my point. What I meant was that Apple has shown that the older iPod doesn't matter to them anymore. So why can't they just open up the API for people to do what they want? Again, they added calendar features... a clock... both of which were hacked in by coders outside of Apple. I can't program, and if I could, I'd be tinkering with my Pod. So my message was more or less a cry for help.
You can do whatever you want with your own hardware. You want Apple to freely give out trade secrets so that you don't have to do as much work to make your hardware do stuff it wasn't intended for.
Wishful thinking, I know.. hence the whole hacking iPod thing I mentioned towards the end.
It's shitty that they didn't add some new stuff because they wanted to sell more new iPods, yes. Way to go pointing out the fact that I was moved by the response to my original post enough to make a few more. What an idiot I must be...