Lets learn to speak the language, shall we?

Tractor's pull. A tractor beam would pull. This pushes. It can't pull. This means its not a reversible tractor beam, which would mean it can pull and be reversed to push ... it can only push.

Its a pusher beam, and it only works in a fluid, on objects with tiny amounts of mass that can stand to be roasted into oblivion in order to move them less than distance of a reasonable sized dictionary.

They've testified under oath to the contrary during some of the recent patent litigation. Your whole comment is predicated on an untruth.

No, when you are working on such a massive scale they really aren't simpler, the engineering and sheer weights alone are astronomical.

Not really. A cargo ship of that size is as complex as an aircraft carrier.

No no, this could turn out to be an HaterGate. Please do not try to bring facts into it! Let people who don't even use OS X come in and rant about the poor choices Apple consistently makes.

niche uses like most all video cameras.

Just because you don't understand the actual use, doesn't mean it's not useful to transfer data at 20Gbps.

What does that even mean?

Yeah, like firewire isn't used in most video cameras still.

Thunderbolt is just 25x faster.

Today that price difference is not nearly as much. Looking at (as best I could find, not exactly) comparable systems, a Dell 15" XPS laptop is $0.99 MORE than a MacBook Pro 15". The Dell has a touch-screen but the MacBook Pro has an SSD and other differences. Perhaps if you took more time than I just did to build as close a system as possible the Dell would be cheaper, but I didn't find that.

But you already did it!

Anyways, Apple products can be pricey, but if you want excellent quality and usability, nothing on the market offers the same value.

Considering that my Black MacBook (2006) lasted eight years, it was a good investment.

It's like you don't understand what "effects" are.

The long, long history of American jurisprudence has determined that your effects are materials held at home. Your smartphone travelling in your pocket as you go out in public, just like your wallet, is not an effect. Things on your person can be searched based upon probable cause without the need for a warrant.

What's deadlier? A million dollar system that requires huge infrastructure and hours of preparation or a million machine gun bullets?

Trade secrets only work for things that are so difficult and complicated that there is little chance of someone else duplicating the invention.