[Porsche-O-Phile]

Apple has become everything that their users supposedly hate about Micro$oft. They just can't admit it.

I don't care how well-made Apple's electronics are (and they are). They still suffer from the BIGGEST problem in electronics - obsolescence. Electronics is perhaps THE single stupidest place someone can spend their money - anything bought today will depreciate faster than even a new car. That nice shiny new iPhone/iPad/iWhatever? It'll be obsolete in six months, hopelessly obsolete to the point it probably can't even be used or supported anymore in a matter of three or four years.

Sheer stupid.

And don't even get me started on how they're nothing more than a bigger pipeline to funnel U.S. dollars to China. I'd bet that the total % of electronics components manufactured here in the USA is probably 5% or thereabouts. It's overwhelmingly Chinese - including Apple products.

Yes, a lot of stuff out there is "cool" but it collectively makes us more stupid/vapid/unable to think for ourselves, more broke, more dependent on (expensive) electricity/energy and (expensive) distribution networks to carry data/bandwith/porn/spam/Viagra commercials, etc.

I'm not saying there aren't good applications for technology, but 99% of so-called "consumer electronics" is stupid pablum.