Whats wrong with Apple?

Why is Apple being such a jerk? With great power comes great arrogance.

Steve Jobs Threatens Theora Lawsuit: Steve Jobs replies to Hugo Roy's email questioning his position on Flash, HTML5, and H264, and Open Standards. Steve replies that he's getting ready to go after Theora for patent infringements.

Apple Raises E-Book Prices For Everyone: Apple announces that the price of all books have to end with .99 and that writers/publishers cannot sell their works cheaper anywhere else.  First, whats the deal with forcing everything as ninety-nine? Its arbitrary and petty to run a marketplace that way. Second, writers and publishers have already set price points to their own satisfaction. Why should Apple's whim force authours to raise their prices (really, who is gonna drop their prices), especially when the author is trying to get by by selling a short story of pamphlet for small change?

Apple wrong to kill seal hunt game: Apple rejected a seal hunting game for the iPhone. Its a variation on the whack-a-mole game. No baby seals are involved, and there is no blood. Apple rejected it because it contained objectionable material, yet they have deep hunting apps, as well as Grand Theft Auto.

Mark Fiore's iPhone App Approved: after being rejected by Apple for "ridiculing public figures". Apple screws up twice: for rejecting the app in the first place; and for approving the app after he wins the Pulitzer Prize (yet still rejects all other political satire for provided through the big newspapers Apple is in bed with)

I'm sure there are many more cases where sheer arrogance has supplanted common sense in Apple's bid to remain the anti-establishment company that cares. It may be the case that all this bad reportage is a result of Apple's success—its easy to hit a big target—but it may also be reporting on the seeds of self-destruction starting to germinate.