Why on earth does apple bar people from using their own hardware? I would never buy apple just because of that.
Ummm..., you may not know this... but Apple "sells hardware" and they use software to supplement the hardware at either give-away prices or for free... :-)
So, with Apple being a "hardware company" it doesn't make any logical sense to have their software support another company's hardware... LOL...
That should read
“why does apple bar people from using other people’s hardware”.
DOH!