ok, apple.

apple wants to force me to update itunes to version 7 for further shopping in the itunes store – but i don't want to.

it's neither just because of the ugly graphite interface with its sharp corners and the dark, depressing, ashy and pale "colors"; nor due to the various itunes glitches people have found...

primarily, it's because jhymn cannot remove apple's variant of the music biz' big idiotic fetish aka digital rights management from the purchased songs anymore.

that's why i was still using itunes 4.9 in the past time (which jhymn still works with). because i believe that i should be able to play my purchased music on any mp3 device.

and thus, that's why i won't buy any other itunes store item until the situation will have changed dramatically.

it seems apple (and of course all their even crazier competitors) rather want me, as a tiniest part of their customer group, to not purchase anything at all than to purchase with the software version of my choice and the freedom to hear my music and play my videos anywhere.

in the end, that's what this required update is really forcing me to do: to stay away from their store. ok, apple.