Apple has always considered people who own an iPod touch second-class citizens: they have to pay for firmware updates, while iPhone heads get theirs free.
While this is all nice and dandy, firmware 3.0 is said to cause huge issues when installed onto first-generation iPod touch devices. PocketGamer users have reported a variety of issues like:
- Slowness
- App crashes
- Sync issues
While this definitely is annoying, it seems to be a problem of the minority – AdMob reports that bust 1% of users have updated their iPod touch devices (compared to more than 40% of iPhone heads):
As of now, Apple has not stated anything – let’s stay tuned to see how it all works out!
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I am having a hugely annoying issue of my ipod slow to forward to the next song. the music goes, but not the title and cover art. I might have to switch back soon. Any ideas?
Hi,
doesn’t happen here – have you tried to resync all the content?
All the best
Tam Hanna
Mine is slow as well- 1st gen with update 3
annoying
Hi,
I have to admit that I also installed the update, and have no issues so far…
All the best
Tam Hanna