It's a shame I can't get the 2.0 firmware update though… and that MobileMe is still down… just hope the store hasn't run out of iPohne 3Gs by the time I get there!

I've downloaded iPhone ver2, and iTunes 7.7 and about 20 free iApps. They're great! You can get a direct link to the OS upgrade, right here:

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-4955.20080710.bgt53/iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw

I'll probably end up paying the $10. I looked around and there's a lot of cool stuff on there (a lot of it is free, too!)

+ 90% of them $9.99 or less

+ 25% of them free

And still be logically true. How? Because $9.99 or less includes the price tag of $0.00 (the or less bit). So the 25% of them free is completely included under the 90% of $9.99 or less.

From this we can infer:

+ 65% are between $0.01 and $9.99

+ 25% are $0.00

+ 10% are $10.00 or more

If that's true, Phil's article is logically consistent and not incorrect.

I just got a touch and there is no way im paying 10 bucks just to get in the store. Ill stick to music and videos, thank you.

A one time $9.99 is too much for someone who lives in NY, NY? How much is a subway token and a newspaper or Starbucks coffee? Some people are just set to this "free" mindset that just boggles me… well, he could also be one of the RIMM trolls :/

This is just sad. So you'll deny yourself access to a veritable cornucopia of functionality, because it's going to cost you another $10? If the Touch had cost an aditional $9.99 at the register, you would have paid it without a second thought.

Anyone who would bother to protest such a nominal fee hasn't any business even BUYING an iPhone or iTouch. Clearly, you have financial concerns!

Oh, lordy.

Doesn't that equal 124%?

Just busting your chops Phil.

ex ped: That was 90% for $9.99 or less, not 99%. In any event, you can't just add 90 to 25, because the two categories overlap. You remember Venn diagrams, don't you Nodack?

You can only run the apps if you have the iPhone v2.0 software on your iPhone or iPod touch. For iPhone, it is a free upgrade, and it officially comes tomorrow, though there is a hidden link whereby you can download it and load it today (see AppleInsider if you really want to do it today). For iPod touch, the software upgrade is $9.95 (and it includes more than just access to the App Store) and it will probably be available on Apple.com or iTunes tomorrow.

And as ped said, it's 9.95 due to accounting rules that prevent companies from recording revenue for a product sale if the product is "incomplete", in other words, additional functionality for that product is to be delivered later (which v2.0 would be if it was free). But if Apple charges for the upgrade, then they can record the full revenue from the iPod touch sale at the time of purchase. For iPhone and AppleTV, Apple does not record the full revenue at time of purchase, but spreads it over the next 8 quarters, thus, the upgrade can be free. That's what a conservative reading of the Sarbanes-Oxley act requires.