Comments on: New iPods not compatible with old accessories http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2007/09/08/new-ipods-not-compatible-with-old-accessories/ Technology news Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:15:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Das http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/09/08/new-ipods-not-compatible-with-old-accessories/comment-page-1/#comment-62743 Das Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:25:57 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2007/09/08/new-ipods-not-compatible-with-old-accessories/#comment-62743 I couldn't agree more with a non e mous on this one. Apple's Motive here is clearly about making more money by deliberately forcing us to buy their overpriced accessories. When he launched against "big brother" in 1984, Steve Jobs intentions appeared more noble then. Alas, we now see the true intent come to light and that is: "Apple wants it all". This is the old animal farm paradigm at play isn't it? Could anyone suggest how to persuade apple to reverse such unethical practices before they become the target for hackers and pirates to render their systems "open source". I couldn’t agree more with a non e mous on this one.
Apple’s Motive here is clearly about making more money by deliberately forcing us to buy their overpriced accessories. When he launched against “big brother” in 1984, Steve Jobs intentions appeared more noble then. Alas, we now see the true intent come to light and that is: “Apple wants it all”. This is the old animal farm paradigm at play isn’t it? Could anyone suggest how to persuade apple to reverse such unethical practices before they become the target for hackers and pirates to render their systems “open source”.

]]> By: a non e mous http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/09/08/new-ipods-not-compatible-with-old-accessories/comment-page-1/#comment-29240 a non e mous Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:09:44 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2007/09/08/new-ipods-not-compatible-with-old-accessories/#comment-29240 If Apple is wondering why they only have 10% (if that) of the computer market, here is the fundamental. If you want to your platform to be as ubiquitous as the PC has become, you make sure that third party accessories and devices will work with your technology as seamlessly as is practicable. What you don't do is continually put barriers in the way, particularly at exorbitant prices. Fifty bucks for a cable set that possibly cost some Chinese factory about fifty cents to make; what a blatant rip off! Silly stuff, like ensuring that cables without authentication chips won't work, just drive home an impression that you are ripping folks off. After all, it's just a cable - it's only your greed that has led to locking out any other brand of accessory. Apple have complained long and hard about Microsoft's proprietaryness in the past. They and others have whinged about how Microsoft tries to smother the market with its own brand of software. Personally, I think Apple are just as guilty, for example, by locking iPods to ITunes. Ensuring that no other brand of accessory will work with the new iPod range without an Apple chip is just as culpable. Completely blocking backwards compatibility with old iPod accessories is just total and utter elitism, arrogance and greed. If Apple is wondering why they only have 10% (if that) of the computer market, here is the fundamental.

If you want to your platform to be as ubiquitous as the PC has become, you make sure that third party accessories and devices will work with your technology as seamlessly as is practicable.

What you don’t do is continually put barriers in the way, particularly at exorbitant prices. Fifty bucks for a cable set that possibly cost some Chinese factory about fifty cents to make; what a blatant rip off!

Silly stuff, like ensuring that cables without authentication chips won’t work, just drive home an impression that you are ripping folks off. After all, it’s just a cable – it’s only your greed that has led to locking out any other brand of accessory.

Apple have complained long and hard about Microsoft’s proprietaryness in the past. They and others have whinged about how Microsoft tries to smother the market with its own brand of software. Personally, I think Apple are just as guilty, for example, by locking iPods to ITunes.

Ensuring that no other brand of accessory will work with the new iPod range without an Apple chip is just as culpable. Completely blocking backwards compatibility with old iPod accessories is just total and utter elitism, arrogance and greed.

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