Me Dev, You Jane

Dear Apple. I am a loyal customer of Apple product. Out of my top 10 favourite things I own propably 6 of them are from Apple. You make some the greatest products available today. Your attention to detail and ease of use is legendary. So it makes me wonder why in the world you dislike me so much.

I have myself an iPod Touch. And even though you have allowed me to buy it you have deemed me not worthy of using it. You have decided that I should not be allowed to run 3rd party applications on it since my country (Iceland) is not worthy of the holy iTunes store. You have also deemed me not worthy of upgrading it for the same reason. I am not even worthy of developing applications for it since I don't live in the list of countries approved for iPod/iPhone development. And I just must ask you why?

I also have the Apple TV which you allowed me to buy. And again I was allowed to buy it just not use it. I'm not allowed to rent or buy movies. Why? I'm allowed to buy music and movies from Amazon or any other store and have it shipped to me. Suddenly when it's in digital form it's like it's a crime for me to shop it? What gives. And as many Apple TV owners I have installed Boxee to it so I can enjoy some extra features. But you have decided that is not allowed and in your latest update you removed it??!?!? This seems to be on purpouse this time and not some accidental breakage because of things you needed to update. It seems to me like you decided to remove it. And what gives you the right to enter my computer and remove things. I know for a fact that AppleTV is just a Mac Mini with Tiger and an app runnin full screen. I sometimes see glimpses of the window border and the close/minimize/zoom buttons. This is in no way different than if you would use your software update to remove competitor software like Microsoft Office on my iMac. How is this ok? And why would you do that to begin with? It's not like Boxee is in competition with you. I still use Apple TV's built in media player.

I know that the reason for why I'm not allowed to use the iTunes store is because of requirements from the record companies. But let me remind you that it is illegal for you to shut me out of it. It is actually 100% illegal for you to deny me shopping on the Danish iTunes store. I'm not kidding you check with your legal team. Europe is one big economic area and according to European laws I am allowed to shop in any European country and I should pay the same price + shipping and handling. So even though the record companies asked you it does not make it less of a crime. If laws have any meaning to you open up my access to the store. You know that sooner or later someone will force you to do that and force you to pay fines while doing that. So why not just do it now?

So please Apple. Stop hating me.

Regards. A Loyal Customer.