Hold on Magnolia to that great highway moon…

Probably won’t be a new ipod after all…..

Like I wrote a while back Apple is probably worse than Microsoft at the moment.

If you liked Apples products however, it didn't cause so many problem. I could still use the iPod almost exactly as I wanted. But it looks like the I won't be able to do that at all with the newest iPods.

The latest iPods have a cryptographic "checksum" in their song databases that prevents third-party applications from synching with the portable music players. This means that iPods can no longer be used with operating systems where iTunes doesn't exist -- like Linux, where gtkpod and Amarok are common free tools used by iPod owners to load their players.

From boingboing.