Apple Is The New Microsoft?

Tell me it’s all just a horrible nightmare. Apparently, Apple’s new iPhoto 6 “photocasting” uses an RSS format that only Safari can handle:

[from SitePoint Blogs » Apple “photocasting” Mac only, uses invalid RSS  by Kevin Yank]

The long and short of it is that Apple’s new iPhoto 6 produces invalid RSS that most feed readers will be unable to process. In order to hide this fact, Apple has put up the equivalent of a “best experienced in Internet Explorer” page to turn its own ineptitude into a marketing opportunity.

If I had my doubts before, I stand corrected. Apple is the new Microsoft.

Yikes. This is the first time that I am putting Apple in the Hall Of Shame. On the other hand, Steve Jobs has a long history of keeping Apple technology bottled up, failing to license technologies, and so on. Let’s hope this isn’t the start of a disastrous trend.

Dan Gilmor chimes in:

<blockquote>[from <a href=”http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/01/17/apples-would-be-monopoly/” >Apple’s Would-be Monopoly</a>]

I have to believe that in this case the problem is less mean-spirited. Apple probably rushed this product feature out the door, testing only on its own browsers. We’ll know soon, because if this exclusionary tactic persists, it will tell us mainly that Apple is more foolish than we might have guessed.</blockquote