Apple is defending its brand and its infrastructure from the other companies trying to make money on Mac OS (psyster, mostly) and from iTunes - other phone vendors. Apple made those investments and are trying to make sure competitors can't rip them off.
Why do you expect Apple to share its investments with other companies? Why would they not want to have exclusive competitive advantage from their own investments? Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- So Apple once again has 'fixed' iTunes so it will not work with palm pre at all. Whom does this help or hurt? It doesn't do a damn thing for paying apple customers...and for those who bought a pre, who may have considered a mac or ipod, they are now at odds with Apple over their purposely shutting off functionality. I'm not talking about writing code that accidentally breaks things, Apple specifically went in and wrote in code to lock out the pre. Now they are rumored to be writing a 'fix' for the next release of snow cat that refuses support for intel's atom cpu. The reason? Those few dozen people who are putting OS X on netbooks is pissing Apple off. This fix does nothing for Apple's customers, and pisses off potential ones. I'm not saying Apple should purposely build in support for the pre or atom, but when it's already there, why are they spending time and money to go back and shut a very very small amount of people down? ************************************************************************ * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************ * ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
