Apple Windows

It angers me that Apple seems to have turned to some sneaky Microsoft tactics in Panther. I'm not going to complain that they conspired to break Camino (because Camino really does need to have its Carbon bits rewritten in Cocoa), but it's shady to have gotten rid of the Internet preference pane. The only way to set the default mail client and browser is to open, respectively, Apple Mail and Apple's Safari browser. Even Microsoft doesn't make you open Internet Explorer to set the default browser (assuming you ignore the fact that Internet Explorer powers the OS and thus is never really "off").

How many people "choose" Safari for the same reasons everyone on Windows "chooses" to use IE? It's the default, so it's easy. And who would ever think to open Safari's preferences to make Firefox the default browser? It's nuts.

I understand that Apple is in the unique position of having such a small OS market share (it has a relatively generous hardware share, so one must be specific) that it needs to create its own applications in many cases to ensure that Windows-equivalents exist. And yes, Apple has the big idea of the Mac being a "digital hub" and so all of its little apps are in a way just one big app. But come on, when competition is there, is it fair to, oh, abuse your monopoly on the desktop to squeeze others out?

When there's so few developers for the platform, it seems unwise to alienate any.