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iTunes Forcing You to Upgrade Your iPod Touch?

The 'buy the upgrade' page only has an OK button

By Filip Truta, Apple News Editor

14th of February 2008, 08:07 GMT

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Has iTunes been bugging you lately? If so, don't worry because you're not alone. That doesn't solve the problem, but hey, at least you know you're not alone on this. More and more iPod touch users are reportedly hounded by a "buy the upgrade" page that only has an OK button, when connecting their iPods to iTunes for syncing.

"Yes, this is very true. You have to unplug your internet while
plugging in an iPod Touch without the upgrade in order to not be hounded. It's a very annoying workaround really," posts a tuaw.com reader.

It could however be a problem only jailbroken users are experiencing. Going through the comments up on tuaw.com, I noticed that most hounded posters have jailbroken iPods. This doesn't indicate that Apple is onto hacked iPods, but it could be in some way related to the annoying prompt. Here are a couple of relevant posts:

--"I do have a jailbroken 1.1.3 and it gives the same nag screens. The nag screen makes it so you can no longer access sync settings anymore! I was so annoyed I did a reformat and now I can't even get back to 1.1.3 jailbreak and am returning the thing."

--"And crap like this is exactly why I haven't upgraded mine from 1.1.1 (jailbroken) yet."

Whether a non-jailbroken iPod touch enables users to check tick something or they just have to pay more attention to the on-screen information so they don't get bothered anymore, here's what another fellow posted: "I don't have the screen when I connect my iPod. If I remember correctly I just checked something so I wouldn't be bothered anymore." However, he added that his iPod was not jailbroken and that he was from Canada."

So, how about you? Any problems while trying to sync to iTunes?

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iTunes | update | annoying | upgrade | iPod touch


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Comment #1 by: gary mayers on 15 Feb 2008, 01:57 GMT reply to this comment

My ipod touch is brand new. Not jailbroken. Does not access settings unless I enable internet, Itunes sees ipod, disable internet, and then after the inevitable nonetwork nag, it allows me to view my settings. Jailbroken ipods should not despair because we all go through the same crap. I'm vouching for the person who will crack itunes and disable this nagging, because as sure as I'm sitting here, Apple won't do it. They are going through Microsoft's Media Player syndrome (let's load it with crap and disable every other codec out there.)

For those who haven't purchased an ipod yet, I would seriously suggest you look into alternatives until there are sufficient WIFI networks out there to at least warrant some broader use of this crap called Apple Ipod Touch.

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