I'll gladly give examples, I will!

1) Three control keys on a keyboard (Ctrl,Alt,Command). It beggars the mind why you would need three 'special' keys, especially considering people rarely use anything more sophisticated than Shift. WTF has got to be put under the as-useless-as-the-windows-key 'Apple' key that couldn't live under Ctrl or Alt? The correct answer is 'nothing' that could justify muddying the primary interface.

2) A single-button mouse. *Come* *on* *Apple*. Talk about issues letting go. If you can toast floppy drives so easily, surely you can tack a second button onto a mouse after so many years of complaints.

3) The newest issue in the newest product: no stylus for the iPad. Jobs says "if it has a stylus, then its a failure". He really is an arrogant and clueless moron. Go ahead, geniuses, try and take notes and draw diagrams with your thumbs. iPad+stylus would put this currently useless consumer device into every boardroom and classroom on the planet. In the words of my 7-yr old, "Epic Fail".

4) Plenty of software UI dullardry, too. For instance: the most common action should be the most easily accessible, so does that mean that when a file is selected the most common action is to rename it? Must be for Apple users, as that's what hitting the enter key does. Or, how about adding a new folder? Does it do this in the currently selected folder? Nope, in the root. Then try and find a nice organized location for all your files. Doesn't exist, as most Mac users have little idea how they are 'supposed' to organize and there is no common install format so they could be anywhere. And how about all of those "eject me" icons that end up on the desktop, that serve no real purpose other than to intimidate the newbie. Or how about that the control menu for an application is physically detached from the he current app ... how in the fuck is that *helpful*? (most of these came from trying to explain to coworkers who drank the Apple kool-aid and couldn't figure things out on their own. God I hate that they know I use Mac products).

The reason this is so entrenched isn't just Jobs fault, but also the fervent zealots that live among the fanbase and have absorbed the Jobs mindset as a type of religion. I had one, in response to my second example, as his final and ultimate argument, tell me to "give it a rest, people have been complaining about the one-button mouse for six years. Once you use it for a while you will realize it is better that way." This latter bit is the core and crux of their arguments, as it has been for Jobs. Don't discuss alternatives, don't disagree with me, just get used to it, I know best, you just don't get it.

And for the record (I hate having to justify this, but the fanboys really annoy me) I own 2 new Macs, an iPhone, and a host of other gear ... and yet I am typing this out on my 7-year old PC. If they were soooo much better, don't you think I'd be using the sexy-looking aluminum laptop sitting beside it?

Charges are the only possible outcome from publishing this story, and his lawyer's efforts at using "Journalist" as a defense are an absurd stretch. The "for the sake of public interest" theme certainly won't mitigate the fact that Gizmodo staff knowingly purchased property from an individual who clearly did not own the property. While I'm no fan of Apple lately, and it certainly was an interesting story, common sense should have prevailed. I guess the carrot was too big and donkey too greedy.

Too bad. The 'ethical' choice might have earned them a place at the feet of Jobs, rather than under his heel.

Applebashing? I own a 1yr old MacBook Pro*, a new iMac and an iPhone, buddy.

A rational person can be an Apple user *and* be critical of the company's policies when he/she doesn't agree with them. I think the latest controversies (no Flash, restrictive dev platform requirements) are insulting, self-serving and isolationist, and so I reserve the right to be both an Apple user and snide/sarcastic when they offer with one hand and take away with the other.

If you want to blindly line up at the iTrough and lap up everything they pour into it, that's your decision.

*qualification: lately the MacBook does spend more time running Windows 7 then OSX.

Ding ... under two minutes for somebody (actually two sombody's) not to recognize sarcasm on /. ... *even* with the preceding "Should Adobe sue Apple" article.

I weep for today's youth.

The Daring Fireball article is obtuse and decidedly one-sided; you know how the cards are going to fall before they've even left the dealer's hand.

First, I suspect that this is only creating a pattern of diminishing returns. A smaller developer base will produce a smaller field of applications, attracting a smaller audience (...and repeat...)

Second, if you have a choice of becoming proficient on a specific subset of tools that can only be used to target a specific audience, you better hope that there are many riches to be found in your narrow niche. That is not true of the Apple store, where Chinese copy-cat apps and most favored nation statutes and poor delivery system (I never seen such a feature-poor store in my life) make extremely difficult to make a profit, never mind the fact that you first have to get over the opaque and unfathomable Apple App Approval process.

Third, programming towards a platform that is defined by such questionable ethics and so unquestionable self-serving (if you believe it is about quality you are fooling yourself ... this is about control and profit) should be considered as an ethical question as well as financial. That's un-American, I realize, but then I'm not American.

Best solution for Adobe: indefinitely delay CS5 for the Mac. Release it when Jobs is dead and is isolationist philosophy is gone with him. To be real jerks, Adobe could include a $100.00 credit towards the purchase of Windows 7 for their Mac users.