I just don't like proprietary solutions...which Apple is full of. Apple can do what they want...and they even do many things very well I admit. BUT...as long as they ignore open standards just to do things their own way I will ignore them. I suspect they are only doing things their own way to lock me into their ecosystem...an expensive marked up ecosystem. Having to buy a replacement cable once when the cat chewed through my son's ipod cable felt like I was being pickpocketed. Meanwhile I have so many usb standard cables laying around that could have been used instead it is not funny.

Same with Sony...they make some truly lustworthy products...but...as long as they deal in memory sticks they can stick it.