>>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.
Yep... the transfer to intel began in 2005 and since then Adobe, Mozilla and everybody else has stopped releasing stuff for PPC, while Apple continues to require newer devices to use latest OS and iTunes. PPC can still sync and develop for older devices but if you want the latest, you may need a new system. In fairness, not all XP systems were Vista-compatible when the time came either- though I agree there isn't much stuff out there that only runs on Vista or newer.
>>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.
I guess Apple would argue that if you want to use coins, the 1930s machine is fine. As is the PPC. What if you want to use a credit card?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
