Six million people may have upgraded to the iPhone 3.0 software according to Apple, but it seems the vast majority of them are iPhone owners, rather than iPod touch.
Mobile advertising firm AdMob has been analysing requests from its network of ads from both devices, and says that of those from iPod touches, just 1 per cent are from the 3.0 OS.
It blames the fact that iPod touch owners have to pay for the upgrade. iPhone owners don't, and AdMob's figures suggest 44 per cent of them have upgraded to 3.0.
"Developers looking to sell applications utilizing the 3.0 features can't be happy with Apple's decision to charge for the upgrade as it limits their available market size for downloads," says AdMob in its
blog post.
We'd love to hear your views if you're an iPod touch owner: have you upgraded, and if not, what's stopping you? Let us know with a comment.
Calcartman | 24 June 2009
I have an Ipod touch; would love to upgrade, but I'm not paying for it. I get no video, no mms, basically i get better apps and copy/paste. This is why I hate the iTunes model, you get nickle+dimed.
Hoho | 24 June 2009
I upgraded, but my advice to other touch owners is not to bother. Cut and paste I've used but is too fiddly to be bothered with. The only other feature I've used is shake to skip tracks, but that only works 50% of the time.
Save your money till apps use the micro payment feature - something that doesn't excite me yet.
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