Strange Bedfellows: Why an Apple/Google collaboration has been so difficult to make happen.

I remember reading how Apple now turns hacked iPhones into shiny bricks when you update them. They also charge an additional 300 dollars for black ibooks with slightly upgraded RAM. Now, you can upgrade the memory on the white ibook to match the memory of the black one, but if you don't pay an Apple technician 90 dollars an hour plus the cost of parts, you will void your warranty. These guys are even worse than Microsoft, mostly because Microsoft never pretended to be a good company. Perhaps "Assle" is a more fitting name.

And I don't know how Assle's philosophy will mesh with Google's "don't be evil."