..heh...sorta.
You may not be familiar with it, but Applie's selling this Nike+Ipod thing.. it's basically a sensor that you fit into a special place on your shoes, plug it into your ipod and runners can use their ipod as a pedometer (measures speed and distance). Pretty neat stuff, and lots of people have been using with other than the Nike shoe it's meant for. Apparently there're easy ways to adapt it to any shoe.
But Apple doesn't like that and are now trying to lock down the device to only function with the specific shoe it was sold for.
Story: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... h-drm.html
It may be no surprise, but I hate Apple. And this is why... vendor lock-in. They try to lock you to their hardware, their software, and they don't like competition. They're basically total bastards. However, if they keep this kind of thing up, they're just going to alienate all their customers and drive themselves out of business. YAY!
My hatred of Apple verges on the fanatic.
so if they actually just paid attention to people they might realise they could still charge their above average prices if they just stopped being so... exclusive.
I mean, sure, you look all slick and yuppie with your shiny, compact and designish Ibook, but what's that gonna get you apart from attention from some stuckup girls that you can't afford to maintain financially anyway? 