About the Ipod software?

Question

What is the ipod touch software (update)?

What does it do?

Is it mandatory and why is it there?

Answer 1

if u can find it online then sure i guess u can download it for free

if not 9.99 for the 2.0 firmware update

Answer 2

It just updates your ipod it doesn't do anything to your songs, videos, or games. It is mandatory if you wanted to put more videos on it because you need to be up to date on the updates in order to add more videos or games.