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So you cant update the 2nd Generation ipod touch anymore?

So you cant update the 2nd Generation ipod touch anymore?

iPod touch, iOS 4.2

Posted on Apr 21, 2011 9:41 AM

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Jan 2, 2012 5:40 AM in response to zoonred

I must voice my total dissatisfaction here.


My iPod touch 2nd gen is less than 3 years old - it can't run the latest iOS, My G5 tower at home can't run the latest OS. I am a .mac user (I have been since it started) but I can't migrate to iCloud and the .mac service is being deprecated. Everything is considered too old to update.


Well - I can update in fact - if I buy a new Mac and a new iPod. This means essentially throwing away my old Apple hardware (again - I have 8 old Macs in the basement). I'm pretty sick of finding myself in this situation. I run both Macs and PCs - one of my development PCs here is still running WIndows 98 very well!


So what I am likely to do is cancel all my Apple services and mothball all my Apple products, as I can't really afford the luxury of upgrading all my hardware (over £2500) just so my calendars and contacts will sync across my devices. I'm likely to migrate to Windows to do this. Painful.


Shameful behaviour from Apple in this age of concern over excess consumption and excess waste production. You've lost (another) long-term Apple devotee and evangelist.

Jan 2, 2012 9:03 AM in response to vazandrew

I understand that the hardware isn't powerful enough to run the latest features of the evolving iOS. However the OS should be adaptive enough to allow such basic functionality such a s sync/contacts sharing etc. on hardware which isn't latest. Basically the constant OS updates methodology is annihilating hardware which works perfectly fine for many applications and users. I don't care about lots of the new features in iOS. I just want to sync basic information.


By bloating the OS and having it demand a higher and higher spec hardware platform is bad design IMHO. I ran OS9 machines of wildly different specs for many, many years. Then came OSX. Then came Intel. Then came iOS and Intel and iCloud. Sigh. I'm just expressing my annoyance at having to retire my iPod touch for no reason other than it cannot run the latest features of an operating system - I cannot sync my contacts and calendars, which is one of the main reasons I got it (I used to run Palm devices). I still use my original GameBoy and my excellent Sony Minidisk - they work as well now as the day I bought them!


Apple have a habit nowadays of punishing early adopters and those who refuse to buy a new computer/gadget every 2 years. And annoying those of us who care about over-consumption, and the bloat and excess of retiring perferctly good hardware early in its life.

Jan 2, 2012 10:30 AM in response to ezppl

The iPod will still function, and you can sync and use it as you have been. There are many who still use older hardware. It is almost a 3.5 year old device, and mobile evolution has been quite fast. It won't be different with others.


My computer is over 3 years old and is running the latest OS, I know others who have older machines running it as well.


This is technology, devices get new features and new OS' are released which demand better processors.

Apr 4, 2012 2:18 PM in response to ezppl

i agree!


this is totally evil of Apple. i have PC's that are 8 years old that still happily update everything including the OS.

if you make people spend an over inflated amount on a product, the least you can do is allow them to use it until it expires. my itouch is becoming worthless even though it is for the most part (battery *****) fine because it cant be updated. What a huge waste. There should be a penalty for having practices that create so much environmental waste. And no i wont spend another $400 just to buy something else that will be out of date in a year. SHAME!

So you cant update the 2nd Generation ipod touch anymore?

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