Day 3 and Apple
Since Ed enjoys my daily updates:
Day 3 of 50 complete. $210 of $3250, 6.46% raised. Finish: November 1st.
So while everyone's been concerned with the menace of a Windows Automatic Updater that automatically updates itself without telling you (which, as the real techs understand, only happens because people were too ignorant to actually turn OFF the automatic updater), Apple pulls a fast one and has successfully locked out current generation iPods from any music player besides their monopolizing iTunes. (Nikiski was right. iTunes wanted a reboot because it was installing new iPod drivers... Not necessarily with locking out in mind, but with new technology in mind.)
This largely affects Linux users, since iTunes is obviously not available for that platform. This also affects people (of who I am beginning to consider joining) who despise iTunes and want to use another application to synchronize their iPod.
It looks like folks are trying to reverse-engineer this new "feature", which is made possible by some sort of special encrypted lines in a file that's stored on the iPod that nobody has been able to decode yet.
And people tell me Apple is better than Microsoft. No. No... They're really not.