It is fairly clear why. So you can run this SWEET app.
-patrick
I don't know how sweet the app is. On the face of it it looks to be no better than Gizmo. I don't really care as I was only trying it to see what it was like - just rather annoyed at being ripped off.
The ipod in question is 18 months old. The idea of a rather expensive, perfectly adequately working device being thrown away is rather repugnant to me, especially as the only reason for throwing it away would be to run a superfluous, questionable piece of software.
As it happens, I did get this ipod just to remotely control Homeseer, which it does perfectly well; it also controls Media Center in a browser window. It even works with updated software versions!
So it won't be thrown away and replaced, but I will be very much more chary of alpha software in the appstore.