Should have said "Psychotic". No offense intended toward the mentally challenged.
If I'm not mistaken, Apple has a DRM scheme called "Fairplay" which attaches management to ACC-formatted files. Sounds to me like MS is a day late and a few dollars short but as long as they are the dominant OS, they can change the game. Internet Explorer Vs. Netscape?.
I have no particularly strong feelings against Apple though I find a lot of iPod and Mac users pretentious, preachy and generally of the Liberal political mindset...but this is just the kind of thing that turns people off to Microsoft (among a plethora of other complaints).
I've been an Apple user since 1977, from Apple II through every generation to G5. And, although you might think me pretentious and preachy, I'm about as far from "liberal" as you can get. Why do I favor Apple? (1) it's consistently been leading-edge in user interface, (2) its products are more esthetically pleasing, and (3) I hate the idea of a wintel monopoly, with all that portends for the deadening of innovation.
Whenever Mac vs. Wintel appears on FreeRepublic, you can generally count on some religious zealots posting messages — anti-Mac or anti-Microsoft. How about just being tolerant to different competing platforms?