It's not just THEIR platform. It's also YOUR device. I've had a few iPods. I'll never buy an iPhone. Hell, I'll never buy another Apple product for the rest of my life. No vendor should be able to tell me what I can or can't do with hardware that I own.

You don't see Home Depot telling you that their hammers can only be used on approved nails, or that their lumber can only be used to build a birdhouse.

Apple's games are ridiculous. But what's worse than their locking down of the iPhone is that people are stupid enough to buy into it.

And yes, these idiots are affecting me. Since they're essentially casting their vote for locked-down hardware, that means I will at some point be stuck buying locked down hardware as there won't be anything else available.

Uh, maybe the fact that if you turn on Unix extensions for Samba Mac freaks out when the UID doesn't match locally. It will actually set the permissions of all mounted files to 111. I've seen this happen several times at my workplace. You can mount a share with Unix extensions enabled and Mac will tell you that you don't have permission to write to it.Or how about the fact that you must enable 'map untrusted to domain' because Mac doesn't send the domain along with the username when it authenticates?

Mac fails at SMB while Windows and Linux clients have no problems.