Apple never fails to impress me with their contempt for users of
those Apple products which Apple would prefer to imagine never existed.
Just for fun I thought I'd plug my new iPod into an OS 9 box to see
what happened. I was expecting this to be (and would have been
satisfied with) one of the following:
(a) The iPod filesystem mounts on the desktop. A lot to hope for,
but certainly within the realm of the conceivable.
(b) An error alert telling me to install or upgrade a driver.
(c) An error alert telling me to install or upgrade a driver, which
is no longer available from Apple.
(d) An error alert telling me that this iPod is only supported on OS
X, and would I please stop fooling around with OS 9 already -- it's
*so* nineties.
(e) Nothing at all.
Unfortunately, what actually happened wasn't so benign as any of
those. Instead, the OS promptly wedged itself, forcing a system reset.
And people wonder why I don't believe in Apple.
Josh
