[mdawson]

For those that are not already aware, most of the services available through Yahoo! require the use Internet Explorer. As the Internet was designed to be platform neutral from the outset, I find Yahoo!s blatant refusal to give equal attention to other browsers a smack in the face. The main reason being that Mac development of IE ceased over two years ago, distribution ended at the end of December 2005 and support was terminated this past January.
Based on the fact that many, if not most of Yahoo!s services are unusable without IE, obviously Yahoo! feels no need to offer their services to the many Web surfers that (wisely) choose not to use IE and Mac users for whom IE is really no longer an option. So, the ultimate non-Internet Explorer surfers need not apply statement has been posted over at arstechnica yesterday (I just saw the article today). Apparently, the geniuses over at Yahoo! are again placing Microsofts proprietary Web technologies over Web standards at the expense of compatibility with other Web browsers.
It is pretty pathetic when Web-based companies choose to ignore the neutrality that is supposed to be the crux of the Internet. Granted, Microsoft is definitively at fault for continuing with their lock-in, or lock-out in this case, practices, but in reality it is up to companies like Yahoo! to refrain from adopting technologies that artificially deny service to users that otherwise have up-to-date computers.

[Nobody]

If one sets aside the principles based on equal access and platform neutrality that may have their roots in morality and altruism and looks at it from the perspective of more relevant contemporary principles where Green God is all powerful and the Holy Grail of Free Market being self correcting (you would need to close your eyes to reality to believe in this one /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif), you would see that it all makes sense... sacrificing a small minority to appease the giant and potentially vengeful God is perfectly common and a traditional thing to do. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
One would think that it might be in the interest of Apple to encourage more Mac users to join their .Mac scam by lowering prices but they also do not seem too keen about it and continue to keep their prices rather high... welcome to an exclusive club, they tend to cost in many different ways! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[macnuke]

well. it slang terms... they are a bunch of yahoo's anyway.
it's wrong of them and right of them. it is a business after all. and market share is what the internet is all about.
being a mac minority.. I am used to it and don't complain too too much.
I also have not hit yahoo in years. and basically have it blocked in Safari and FF.
my own small silent protest.
wail for me.. i won't.