An Open Letter to Apple

Dear Apple,
I recently recieved an iPod Shuffle as a Christmas gift from my wonderful parents. I was extremely excited to get home and try it out. Unfortunately the iPod software are unable to run on a computer running on Windows ME. Imagine my dissappointment. So I looked online to try to find a way I could use my iPod on my computer without chaning my whole operating system (the second most expensive part of a computer after the monitor). I found that some software exists that can talk to the player, but none of these are Apple applications, thereby forcing my hand to download the newest verison of RealPlayer to put music on my music player. Forcing me away from Apple software does not seem to be in your best interest. Ideally when I use your Apple software I should be so thrilled by how great it is that I should want to go right out and purchase an Apple computer if my current computer craps out in a couple a weeks (which it very well may). But you have denied me the opprotunity to see how good your software is and now I should be under the impression that Apple software is difficult to use because it is incompatible with other things.
Truely yours.