I have a Mac and an iPod. But I don’t like Apple’s megalomania. My supposedly iron clad Mac had a hard drive meltdown. Of course, it was out of warranty, and I had not paid the annual fee required to have Apple actually stand behind their product of it malfunctions, I ended up bringing it to the local Apple Store for a “genius” to look at it. To their credit, they wiped the hard drive and re-installed the OS, even giving me the latest upgrade free. But among other things, it wiped all my iPod songs off, and the iPod will not recognize the computer as the sole computer each iPod must be linked to. So I can’t load new songs on the iPod, and I can’t upload from the iPod to the computer. I have to either take my computer back to the Apple Store yet again or buy a new iPod and reload all my songs, both of which are an unnecessary waste of my time. All because of Apple’s obsession with controlling who gets access to what. It’s overbearing.

Now, Apple reserves the right to decide which apps for your iPhone or iPad they will allow or even allow and then disallow, even if you have already paid for it. I don’t want SONY deciding which programs I can watch on my TV, and I don’t want Apple deciding which apps I get to buy or keep after I have bought them. I don’t like the trend