I don't want a relgious war about operating system choices, so please don't turn it into one. It is clear from your remarks that you have never actually spent any time using Linux (which is, in my opinion, light years better than Windows, and better than a Mac -- its easier to use, has a nicer/more elegant GUI, its faster, speedier, and has a broader selection of higher-quality software that is easier to install, etc. Oh, its cheaper too. And 13-year-olds (not just mine) think its one of the coolest things on this planet).



But that is a complete distraction from the FACT that Apple has saddled the beautiful, supremely elegant iPod Touch hardware with crippling software. It has taken what was designed to be a music player and turned it into a vending machine that urges you to pump nickels and dimes into the Apple app store to buy new trinkets as often as possible. In order to turn it into this cash machine, it made software design choices that crippled the product. They designed it, on purpose, to not work out of the box, so that users would be *forced* to install iTunes, and be *forced* to register at the App Store, in order to get a functioning, usable product. Don't try to imply that this is somehow "my fault" for "not reading the box"; it is not: it is very clearly Apple's esign choice, and Apple's fault. Don't try to imply that this has something to do with Linux, its not: it is Apple that made this choice.



Do you think that I am somehow unique in seeing through this bad design/marketing choice? If you do, you google "iPod jailbreak": there are about 2 million hits for this term -- there are millions of web pages where iPod customers are expressing their dissatisfaction with this terrible design choice. I can guarentee you that, of these two million expressions of unhappiness, that 99% of them are either Windows or Mac users. This has nothing at all to do with Linux.
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