You don't think it's silly that Windows users didn't have a problem at all using their new iPhone, while I was forced to upgrade my OS?
Nothing like spending $600 bucks for my 3rd and 4th iphones after I had already spent $2000 for a MBP several years earlier only to find out I had to go out and spend more money to upgrade my OS to make syncing the phones possible.
I don't think I'm over reacting at all. It was a huge inconvenience and a cheap way for Apple to get more money out of their current customers. If apple wanted to make life difficult, it seems they'd do that for people wanting to sync their phones to a windows computer. Why in the world would they release a phone that's incompatible with their own computers?
Tiger was released in 2005, it's a 6-year old OS, how long do you feel Apple needs to support old OSes for new products? At what point does it harm the product because they can't leverage the new technologies in their recent, very cheaply priced, OSes?
Your hardware obviously supports SL. You were using a 6-year old OS. The upgrade to SL is pretty cheap. You can now use your iPhone. I don't really think it's that bad of a deal.
I read this after responding to the other post. This makes more sense that producing a new product tied to an old OS may limit its potential. Why in the world wouldn't Apple explain that to me when I called them about it? They simply said I had to upgrade the OS and offered no other explanation.
Also, while I'm pretty tech savvy, I'm far from a programmer and don't understand the limitations/possibilities afforded by certain OS. However, I still find it odd that if I was running a 4 year old Windows computer I could sync my phone just fine. If it works with old windows computers, is it really that difficult to make it work with an older mac?
Like you said, it was a minor cost - just $30 - but the inconvenience of it is what really irked me. It just seemed like a silly way to make people upgrade their OS.