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The reason they used to bundle the wall charger and extras for free is because iPod prices used to be higher - Apple was able to drop the price of iPods by selling those things separately.
If you're buying a brand new device, be it a printer, camera, etc., it's not unreasonable to expect that the equipment you're using it with it was made in the past 7 years (the iMac DV was discontinued in Feb. 2001, and the models below 400 mhz only supported Panther 10.3). He's still using a G4 Cube, WTF? They had a neat design back in the day, but so did the 20th Anniversary Mac. So did the Mac TV. So did many of the old Mac models.
I never understood those people who opted to skip an entire Mac OS version - those that upgraded to Leopard from Panther (skipping Tiger). For one, how did they avoid compatibility issues? After every Mac OS X release, there's always brand new applications that are made to work only for that OS version. Developers of current applications tend to only support applications running on the latest OS, and the previous version of the OS.
Whatever - if the cost of the OS is such a big deal to him, he should just pirate it, and be done with it. Jeez. Or, he could buy a computer manufactured within the past three years.
I bet his next complaint will be that it's hard to find Apple parts for his G4 Cube. It's been out of warranty for nearly four years, c'mon.
It was a long rant about that guy who bought the iPod - heh, maybe I am addicted to the internet.
Her argument is fundamentally flawed - you can't buy things and expect them to last anymore. And if they do last, that's great...but if they don't, at some point you're going to be expected to buy new stuff to stay compatible. You can't buy movies on VHS tapes anymore, and soon you won't be able to buy DVDs anymore, either. That's just the way it works. It sucks, it really does - imagine how often people have had to buy that Johnny Cash album through vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD, and now iTunes (which is inferior to CDs from a technical standpoint).
What's interesting is that when you buy an album, you're actually buying a license to that album, which is why it's illegal to make more than one copy - when you rebuy an album, you're rebuying the license to that album, plus a physical copy in another format. There's no way to upgrade to the newer format, which is how the recording industry has been able to rip people off for so many years.
But I digress...heh, sorry for all of the posting, I'll try to spread the comments out over several articles next time. ;)
Technically, using something like Handbrake (or MacThe Ripper) to break the DVD's encryption scheme is illegal, but the encryption is there to block people's right to fair use.