Dear Mr. Jobs,

I held off jailbreaking my iPod Touch because I'd heard that in early 2008 you'd be opening it up to third party apps.

When I first bought the Touch, I was disappointed because I thought I'd get Wifi versions of some of the iPhone apps. Sadly, its list of applets paled in comparison to the iPhone. Jailbreaking was one way around that, but I held off because I didn't want to miss out on the cornucopia of third-party apps that would be released in early 2008, once you opened it up.

So today I learned there's a new update to the Touch, it's a spectacular update adding things like Mail and Google Maps, things I'd wanted all along (and honestly, thought I was getting all along).

Sadly, I also learned the following two things about this update:

1. It's still not opened up.

2. The update costs 20.00.

What the fuck, Steve?

Do you know what this software release did for me? I'll tell you what it didn't do: It didn't prompt me to spend 20 more dollars on the thing.

Guess what today's announcement *did* prompt me to do? And I'll bet lots of others, too...