>>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.

Apple will of course reply that that is the way he and all the other 'cool' people wanted it, and he will believe it and buy something else shiney from Apple if he is 'cool'.