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iPod Tax Causes Sour Apples
An anonymous reader writes "Apple Computer is stepping up its push to get iPod accessory makers to pay for the right to connect to the popular music player." From the article: "It's not clear what means Apple might employ if companies don't go along, as Apple declined to comment on that. Though many manufacturers have signed up for the program so far, some have complained in private that it's too high a price. But for Apple, the move is a chance to profit further from the empire it has built on the iPod, given that the market for such add-ons is estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year."
Imagine the money they would be making if they had thought in the first place to have a weird non-standard headphone jack. Then they could sue or harass anyone who tried to make anything that plugged into it unless they paid the iPod tax.
It is par for the course. This is the company that for most of its life had weird non-standard mice, keyboards, disk formats, etc etc.
How about using nano instead of the 2nd generation IPOD logo that is currently used on this site?