>Apple may insist on controlling everything, but so far they don't try to force people to fix things that aren't broken.

My roommate has an iMac, OSX 10.4 I think. It has a PowerPC.

You can't use it to sync an iPod Nano.

You can't use it to develop iOS apps.

You can't find a reliable version of Flash for it.

How is it that you can put a quarter minted yesterday into a Pepsi machine made in the 1930's, and it all works, but an Apple iMac and an Apple iPod made within a few years of each other are completely un-cooperative.

Bullshit.