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

It's part of the OS, which is not capable of running on your hardware. It still does the things it did when you bought it.

Aaargh! My point is that iCloud is not at its core such a big deal. It is basically just synching media across different devices.

The bottom line is this: it is wrong that I cannot sync my media, Address Book and iCal data with my device unless I buy a new computer and a new device. I'm all done discussing it. Thanks.

That's irrelevant since its not a separate function. It is a new feature within the OS, and nothing has been taken away from your current functionality.

You can sync that content the same as you have in the past

Its common knowledge that Apple has decided to focus on developing the most sophisticated electronics possible and staying at the head of the technological market, with the understanding that its customers are willing to sacrifice long-term support in order to have "the best thing there currently is". By purchessing an apple product, you have (apparently unknowingly for some here) endorsed/accepted this trade-off. You were happy with the best when it was still the best, but the reason you got such a nifty gadget way-back-when is because all the people with 2 year old devices (at the time) were no longer recieving support. Keeping up to date with apple is and should be expensive. If it wasn't, it's because some other company is selling the top end equipment. Don't buy apple if you can't afford it, and stop complaining that you can't run some new app that probably just does some pointless but really cool thing with you desktop theme.

an aside: there's usually an unofficial way of implementing certain features on your outdated equipment...

I understand and accept the concept of evolving technology and Apple’s desire to move forward. I “get” that my 2^nd Gen will not be able to run the newest apps for varied reasons (be it hardware, software, marketing, etc.).

My issue is when I update apps that I already have installed (and are working fine), the app disappears from my device and all data is lost. “Rolling-back” to a previous version is not a concept that Apple subscribes to.

If I can get a pop-up box to warn me that my bartender app has material not suited for minors, why can’t I get a pop-up box that lets me know I’m about to upgrade the app beyond my devices capabilities? Or better yet, NOT UPDATE when the hardware can’t handle it. The update program is “smart enough” not to install the non-compatible version so why can’t it just reinstall the older, functioning version before it quits the sync?

Companies have gone to a lot of trouble to make software user-friendly, esp. Apple who basically pride themselves on being accessible to the computer illiterate. They have turned the “Update All” button into a game of Russian Roulette… which app will die this time?

“Download All Free Updates” may just as well be rebranded as the “Do I feel lucky? (Well, do ya, punk?)” button.

I think it is crazy that the 2nd generation cant download IOS! I tried to download a song and it said I had to have IOS 5! APPLE, GIVE US OUR MONEYS WORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i find it funny that the users on here tell us to stop complaining or stop  being cheap.

take a second to get off your horse and see things from our eyes.

we have perfect working ipods we have many apps we use daily or seldom, regardless they work fine the ipod works fine. 

we connect to itunes or hit the updateall button on our ipods or **** even our kids by accident.

now guess what our ipod that we use to play games, read books, help kill time etc.. no longer work for these uses.

suddenly the apps are gone . why? because the developers upgraded the apps to handle the new os's

i find it pretty hard to belive apple in his allmighty all knowing power cannot set a feature that stops the program from updating to a non compatible version.

now i like the rest of the others have a ipod that simply plays music.  no more games ,no more tools that i used for work. simply aggravated with the whole siutation

but its easy for everyone else to say stop crying go spend another $300.00

i just find it hard that with the push of a button we lose all features of our ipods the reason we bought the itouches for the ability to do more than just listen to music.

dont no i dont give a **** about grammar on here im not here to show off for you just state my argument.

I use my 2nd gen itouch for everything (games, music, keeping in touch with friends around the world via chat apps) but I've already had to delete a couple apps because the updates require iOS 4.3 or higher.

You'd think that apple would offer an incentive for owners to upgrade from 2nd gen... like trade in working 2nd gens for 3rd, 4th, or 5th gen upgrade and we pay the difference in price (I paid $99 to replace my 2nd gen last year) but as it stands if you upgrade you only get 10% off if you recycle your 2nd gen (but only at the apple store.)

Well I guess it was nice well it lasted but soon I'll be left with a gloried mp3 player. This whole deal has left me feeling like I wasted my money by replacing something that they weren't going to continue to support

I just tried to download Amazon Cloud player to my iPod touch and it told me I had to update to 4.3. But when I tried to go and do that, of course I got nowhere.  It was very frustrating. Then I came here and found this. The touch is in perfectly good operating condition, as yours is, and I'm not happy about this. Planned obsolescence.

I have two other iPods, 2 iPhone 4s's, a Mac desktop, a Macbook and a new Macbook Pro. I wonder when they will have the same problem.

Well, Mizsweetness1990, just keep buying that Norton anti virus to keep all of those nasy gremlins out of your computer. And when it bogs down so bad that you can hardly use it give them your money again with a smile. Meanwhile we will continue enjoying our virus free Macs. Why did you come here anyway?

i cant even dowload facebook on my ipod for gods sake. apple should at least come out with one new software update just for old products so they can actually be used

o and why when i bought it did apple tell me on the box that my ipod was a 3rd gen but inside its a 2nd gen

Greedy and cynical corporation behaves with greedy cynicism.

hockey17det wrote:

 

o and why when i bought it did apple tell me on the box that my ipod was a 3rd gen but inside its a 2nd gen

And where did you buy it?  Did you ever stop to think that perhaps the seller was being untruthful and Apple had nothing to do with the sale?

Couldn't agree with Andros0 more.  My daughter's 2nd gen iPod touch locked up yesterday and the only choice I had was to do a restore.  In the process the iPod was upgraded to the latest version, iOS 4.2.1 and after the restore from backup completed some of the apps she had like Instagram and Mobicip were missing from her iPod because they need a newer iOS version.  It sure would have been nice to get a warning message and the choice to not get a version of the app that the current iOS version didn't support.  Now I see no way of getting the older version back.  Had I known that this could happen I would have never upgraded the latest iOS version but it could have also happened when I did the restore which couldn't be avoided anyway.  How hard would it be to keep older versions of apps around that worked on older iOS versions?  It's not like they would need to support the older versions because the iOS version isn't ever going to change. 

My daughter has been interested in a new iPod touch, probably the 4th gen because the 5th gen is too rich for my blood.  Now that I see how Apple recklessly handles their app updates I'm going to explain to her that her new iPod will probably have the same issues in a couple years and try to talk her into something else.  Any suggestions anyone?