Brand new ipod touch, $10 to get 2.0!

Ordered Monday (on my son's AppleID as part of buy a mac, get an ipod free). Delivered yesterday, registered this morning (using my AppleID). Had it laser engraved and my son tracked it from China->Alaska->... so we can be somewhat certain it isn't month old stock that was sitting in shrinkwrap somewhere.
Now Apple wants $10 to upgrade it to 2.0! QCC?
Why didn't it come with 2.0 already installed?
Apple/iTunes is apparently smart enough to figure that his six month old ipod touch wasn't eligible for upgrade based on this new purchase, but not smart enough to tell that the new one should be free?

Hi,
It is easy to understand your annoyance and hindsight is 20/20 but had I been ordering a new Touch I would have checked and double checked the firmware situation. Contacting Apple by both Email and phoning an Apple store.
At the online store it does not say anywhwere (that I can find) what firmware is on new Touches. The fact that the 2.0 upgrade is so heavily advertised along side the Touch might have been a clue.
Updating a Touch during shipping would be totally impractical, you require the update file on your own HD. Also, putting what is now appearing to be a not quite 100% solid software update on a brand new item may have been a good move for both parties.
As it appears the Touch is not yet shipped with 2.0 and no one out there is getting a better deal, I don't think you have been that hard done by.
Dud.
Message was edited by: Duddo

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