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My beef is more so with Apple's DRM chips installed in their accessories now which has negated all my previously bought Apple and non-Apple accessories, forcing
by taitems 17y ago
My beef is more so with Apple's DRM chips installed in their accessories now which has negated all my previously bought Apple and non-Apple accessories, forcing me to purchase new, Apple authorised accessories all over again.
One could defend it as time saving on backwards compatability (like forcing everyone to upgrade to IE8 from IE6 to use a website's "cool" new feature), but I think its as simple as typical Apple money-grubbing.
It's not illegal, it's not exactly unethical, it's just rude.
- mmt 17y agoLike I said, I don't disagree that such behavior is consumer-hostile. I don't know that they're guilty or innocent of it, just that it's not particularly relevant to the topic of anti-competition. However, I'm quite confident the market will take care of that sort of misbehavior quite naturally.