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In what bizarro world is not supporting your competitor's products considered threatening behavior?

• ars 17y ago
  You misread it. They threatened to deliberately break support. Yes, on the surface they said "we won't support", but what they actually meant was "we'll break it next version". If all they wanted was just no support they would just ignore the issue. By mentioning it, it's an implied threat.
  • rictic 17y ago
    You say that with a lot of confidence but I can't see how you can possibly be so sure. Furthermore, Apple has already released one update to iTunes since details about the Pre's USB signifiers were known. Breaking support for the Pre as it is would be trivial, it reports itself as a subtly different device over USB, close enough that the current version of iTunes treats it like an iPod but different enough that it should be very simple indeed to block it.
  • GHFigs 17y ago
    How could I have misread something that by your own admission was not part of the text?
  • zcrar70 17y ago
    on the surface they said "we won't support", but what they actually meant was "we'll break it next version". How do you know that?