The percentage of returned gadgets that have nothing wrong with them.
Of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were actually broken, according to a 2008 study.
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This will only apply to apps that were purchased using another device. Like, if you purchased something on your old iPhone and tried to redownload it for free on your new iPhone, it would charge you. You can still do it completely free from iTunes. This is a technical limitation, not Apple trying to screw you.
Very misleading headline.
What'd be even more misleading is the message itself. That and the fact that we've seen it on the same device.
(I didn't mean to imply it was intentionally misleading.)
I've been running iPhone 3.0 (have had the same device for a year) since it was seeded to developers and have never seen this message. There have been plenty of occasions where I've redownloaded an app that I've paid for already without trouble.
I think the language "this device" is very telling. Perhaps you are using the same device, but a different device identifier than the one used for the original purchase (even if the app itself is free, it's still a purchase) is being sent to iTunes for the purchase that raises this message.
Fair enough -- I've tweaked the headline for clarity's sake to reflect that this is an OTA-only situation.
I love my iPhone almost as much as I love my wife, but this is proof that the ipod/iPhone needs to be able to sync apps with your CPU over wifi!!!!
is their any difference between it being connected by a cable vs. being connected by wifi?
@ murmermer
It charges when it's connected via cable to the computer, and the data would probably sync faster.