My main beef is that Apple's trying to tell you what you can do with something that you can legally purchase from them. I can go into an Apple store right now and buy a standalone copy of OSX. As soon as I get home and open the box, ta-da, I get greeted with a EULA that tells me I'm not allowed to do anything with it but install it on "Apple-labeled" hardware. If I can get it to install on non-Apple hardware, isn't that my right as a consumer who already paid Apple for their hard work? Nobody's asking that they support it necessarily, but to flat out tell me I cannot do it is a bad, bad thing.

Apple is free to build and design it however they want, but they aren't allowed to tell me where I can and cannot install it. They're free to release constant updates that BREAK my shady installation, if they so choose. Imagine if Intel only allowed you to use Intel SSDs with Intel chipsets. Or if AMD motherboards only worked with ATi graphics cards. Imagine if the makers of DOOM put a clause in the EULA that said you could only install it on i386 chips.

The place more companies (manufacturers, designers, even entertainment companies) are trying to get to is a total and complete clampdown on your purchases. You buy a Blu-Ray now and it comes with a digital copy - that you're allowed to put into WMP or iTunes only. The iPhone only works with iTunes. The Kindle uses proprietary formats. What happened to the days when you could buy a book, read it, and resell it - so you could buy more books? That was the right of first sale - I was free to do whatever I wanted with it after I bought it. That so many aspects of this are getting trampled roughshod over just because we've entered the digital age is saddening, though not unanticipated.