Worms

Apple does some cool stuff. Some of the time it does pretty stupid stuff. The iPod nano G3 was fat, ugly and had stupid UI changes that distracted you whilst in use. The windows version of iTunes has consistently been a shitty application nearly every major update - 8.0 brought dreaded BSODs to Vista users. I'm not going to even go in to the long winded rant that I could about how they seem to be shitting up iTunes' interface every update with more styles that don't match, more non-system elements. Three fucking scrollbar styles in one app, what the hell are you guys on?

Not only that but the way they shovel Software Update and try to push Safari on to people is just asking for people to take offense. No. No stupid "You can just click the option off!" - because installing extra things should not be the default action. Everyone who took Apple's side on that is a fucking hypocrite. If Microsoft or Adobe had done the same thing you wouldn't of been able to find your ass for the tide of crying.

So what does The Fruit do after these recent ball yanks? Oh, how about forbid 'competing' apps for the iPhone. Total. Utter. Bullshit. Hey, here that Apple lawyers? That's the sound of hundreds of developers suddenly stopping and wondering if their bucks were actually well spent when they decided to join ADC. Oh, and the sound of anti-competitive lawsuit. I'm starting to think that the upper Apple tiers don't even know what gets accepted and rejected nowadays. Who on Earth would think that forcing competition out, for absolutely no reason other than that, is a good idea?

Who the fuck is in charge of these decisions? Why aren't they fired?

This is coming after the constant stumbles with Me.com and 10.5.4 bugs (I really enjoy randomly getting 1/8th my regular FPS on mac games!), it just keeps going. Apple may be candy and sparkles a lot of the time but recently a lot have balls have been dropped. It's time they eased off the accelerator and sorted out their shit.

Update - I finished applying the new style to past goodies releases and offered up a Font duo I did some time about when FontStruct went live.