Discussion on:

Four design lessons from the Steve Jobs era

...but there are some worms in the Apple. In marked contrast to the WIntel architecture's history of providing legacy support, Apple's strategy of innovation leaves some customers high and dry, forcing costly updates on the unwary. Consider the the latest edition of ITunes- my fiancee went to install it on a 5-year-old MacBook, running OS X 10.4.11 - and was shocked to discover it was not supported and would require a heftily-priced update to OS X 10.5. And she's not the only one. And the puncline? ITunes 10 is available for WINDOWS XP....if it weren't so sad, it would be funny/