You do realize that this kind of questioning attitude makes you unfit for and unworthy of Apple Products and the Cult of The Steve <s>
( I think it also qualifies you as a Suppressive Person, but maybe that's Scientology, I am always getting them mixed up )
>>Apple may insist on controlling everything, but so far they don't try to force people to fix things that aren't broken.
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>My roommate has an iMac, OSX 10.4 I think. It has a PowerPC.
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>You can't use it to sync an iPod Nano.
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>You can't use it to develop iOS apps.
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>You can't find a reliable version of Flash for it.
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>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.
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>Bullshit.
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