Is Apple The New Microsoft?

Varg Vikernes writes "Even if you don't count Apple's actions this week as a potential threat to first amendment rights (Apple's crackdown on Web sites that love the company), they do nothing to bolster Apple's public image. In fact the company's success of late has yielded accusations of bullying and potentially unlawful business tactics, along with complaints about the fact that songs purchased from its iTunes music service don't work with music players other than its own. According to Forbes, to some these tactics sound like something Apple's neighbor to the North might employ. They wonder aloud Is Apple the New Microsoft?

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Re:They wish...

[mp3phish]

GCC, KHTML (Konqueror web browser), et al are NOT benefiting from apple fixes.

As countless previous posters have already proven and posted and as countless project maintainers to the above projects have already said, apple changes are useless and cannot be put back into the main project. They mangle the code.

Also, the first part of your post is just silly. iPod doesn't play MP3's without first going through iTunes. So telling me that iTunes and iPod aren't closely tied is just plain RIDICULOUS. you simply cannnot install mp3's into your iPod without iTunes the program (unless you use a hacked program to load them in)