Ok, it may be just me, but I feel like "it's" and "its" should both be written "it's". I think that English speakers are smart enough to differentiate between the two based on context clues.
Point 1: Based on the normal rules of English "its" should mean: more than one it. What if I was writing about Cousin It and his relatives. how would you distinguish the Its (the It family) with "its"? Very confusing.
Point 2: Grammar rules generally suggest that an apostrophe+s is how you make something possessive. Are there any other exceptions to this rule?
Tell me, who is going to get confused when you write, "the dog couldn't find it's bone." Would you be confused?
English is ridiculous sometimes.
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