From this article about the Mac mini Salon.com Technology | Letters:
I’d happily buy an Apple machine if I could get a huge range of software at Staples for cheap (I can’t), if I could choose from buckets of hardware for a few bucks that I could pop in (I can’t), if it used the software and hardware I already paid for (it doesn’t), if it worked like the computers everybody else uses so we could work together (it doesn’t), if I wouldn’t have to pay for every minor upgrade (I would), if the company weren’t so secretive (it is), if I could expect my software to continue running from version to version as most Windows software does (it doesn’t), if I or one of my friends could get parts to fix it (we can’t), and most important, if there were some competition that would break Apple’s megalomaniacal mini-monopoly and I could comparison-shop Apple clones from different manufacturers (I can’t).
Why is it a good thing that you can fish through a bucket of crappy software at the local Staples store? What about all of the great apps that you can download from the ‘net? Why is a bucket of s*&t at Staples the benchmark for a good computer/operating system?
Oh well, Windows still sucks (read spyware/spybots/spambots/malware et al)!