IOS 6 and iTunes 10.6.3

For those of you who can't upgrade to 10.7 due to hardware limitations or you are afraid that it will mess up iTunes on your computer (which has been an ongoing issue for many), I recently updated my iPod Touch to iOS 6 and found that iTunes 10.6 not only recognizes but syncs and backs up fine.  I backed up and transferred purchases before upgrading, and then I upgraded through the Settings app.  So far, my iPod is fine and has all my data and is working with iTunes 10.6 fine.
Hope this helps anyone

Thanks so much for that - I've been trying to find the answer to that little potential problem, but various Google searches haven't discovered the answer yet!! I have an old G4 Powerbook which currently runs iTunes 10.6.3 and syncs to my iPod touch (4G) currently running iOS 5.1.1.
iTunes 10.6.3 has offered me the iOS 6 update for my iPod but I wasn't sure if that would stop me syncing my iPod with iTunes afterwards. As you say, upgrading iTunes isn't a possibility due to Apple ending support for PowerPC Macs with iTunes 10.7. Buying a new Mac isn't really possible at the moment due to lack of funds.
That's given me some glimmer of hope that I don't need to shell out on new hardware if I updated to iOS 6. If that was the case, I'd seriously consider switching to Windows - even though I'm an avid Mac user, I find the decision to continue supporting Windows XP - an 11-year old operating system! - but not their own PowerPC Macs (some of which are less than 5 years old) very disappointing!! iTunes is just a utility to copy data back and forth to their devices, there's no technical reason why they couldn't have made iTunes 10.7 available for PowerPC users running 10.5.8 - this is more a case of abandoning their loyal customers.
Apple are getting more and more arrogant with their legacy customers - and I say that as a Mac user of over 20 years now.
Once again, thank you so much for this info!

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