i like
apple

for the most part. i work in a heterogeneous world, but
by-and-large, i enjoy my
ibook

and tend to stick with it through the good times and the bad. but
i’m not a zealot and there are times when
apple

needs to get its head out of its corporate ass. take, for instance,

its practice of screwing 3rd party audio application developers

. presumably it’s in some incomprehensible way meant to protect
apple’s

interests in
ichat

[ i know i’m simplifying the situation, but bear with me ], but it
really, really rubs me the wrong way.
xten

has developed a great cross-platform

sip-client

, which happens to suck on a mac because the sound quality issues.

of course, your average mac user wil probably blame
xten

because
ichat

works just fine.
sigh