Crippled iTunes

New iTunes steals your ability to turn Apple music into iPod-friendly MP3s [via boingboing.net]  >O
I'm so not surprised.

Personally, although I own an iPod, I never use it.  I know this statement probably makes me sound bad.... ._.
The "biggie" about owning an iPod was managing to hook it up to my linux box.  Once I did it (painlessly, if I might add), I lost interest in it.
I even formatted it into a mac-ipod to add a little bit more complication to it, but yeah... once it was done, I wasn't interested in using it anymore. =/

Nowadays all it takes to sync up your iPod to your linux box is plugging it in and opening amaroK.