The chances are that they don't really want you talking to cheap windows servers and actually quite like the fact it forces mac users to buy things like Timecapsule etc. Lets just except all companies do it but I wish they wouldn't as it's such a pain.Īll that being said: There's nothing to stop Apple from bringing out a patch everytime Microsoft change the rules and have it applied along with a bootcamp update.
Over, a lot of 'open' standards are controlled by a group of companies that are looking to or at least where created to break the hold over the dominant player). Look how they use the iTunes to dominate the music player and now smartphone (what they did with the Palm Pre) or trying to destroy Flash by not supporting it on iPhone/iPad forcing content providers to use HTML5 (something they have a lot of influence use it to cripple competition in other markets. But Apple do the exact same thing when they have a monopoly i.e.
