Touch Users Not Upgrading to OS 3 Quickly

Chitika:

Yes, we know it now costs $5, but looking at the numbers, it appears that users of devices with iPhone OS on them aren’t willing to pay for it. iPhone users, who have always been able to upgrade to OS 3.0 for free, use the more recent versions 94.4% of the time. iPod Touch users, who are required to pay between $5 and $10 depending on timing, only use 3.x 55.24% of the time.

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If you take into account the number of iPod Touches purchased between iPhone OS 3.0’s release (June 17th, 2009) and the time of this report, the 55% becomes even more indicative of iPod users’ unwillingness to pay for OS updates. All iPod Touches over the past six months have had OS 3.x pre-installed on them already. Perhaps it’s time for Apple to give iPod Touch users the latest OS for free.