Why did I have to buy Snow Leopard just to get my iPhone to work?

I received my new iPhone 4 this past week and when I plugged it in, it said my software was not up to date. At the time, I was running 10.4.11 and things were running great, which is why I continued to keep it there as it fulfilled the duties it needed to for my work. Then, rather than just plugging in my new phone and letting the Mac do its thing, I had to go out, purchase Snow Leopard, install, wait, and then install phone. So, what used to be a relatively quick process for a new Mac product became hours and hours, and also cost extra money which I did not intend to spend as I was content running Tiger. I was coming from an iPhone 3GS, which was working just fine on my current system to this.
Is Apple considering refunding the cost of the software to customers who had to upgrade the OS just to get his or her iPhone running? If they are not considering it, I think that they should.
As a loyal Mac costumer, I am a bit frustrated that the process is turning into that which I desired to get away from- the PC and Windows- in which everything would still work the same as the updates were made. I would appreciate some feedback on this topic.

If you need more of an answer than Barney already gave you, Tiger doesn't support all the features of the iPhone 4, in much the same way it doesn't support all the features of iTunes 9. This should not be much of a surprise. Tiger was released in mid 2005 & the last version update to 10.4.11 was released in November of 2007. It simply lacks many of the underlying OS services the more recent versions include.

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