I’m curious why Apple chose to do this. Why spend so much money engineering such a product only to deliberately cut out a portion of your potential consumers. It would be akin to Nike going through great efforts to design a new tennis shoe but then only sell it in one size. I guess I’ll keep my money, Apple.

New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux – Boing Boing

Update: Well, that didn’t last long.  Hackers have, so far, found a way around the new restrictions.