The truth is, Apple is a marketing based company even more than Microsoft is.
However Microsoft spends nearly thrice the number on marketing.
Yes, MS is a software company... and yet, they don't lock down any of the software options within their operating systems.
But they do. The Xbox 360 is locked down and software can only be installed if it passes certification from Xbox LIVE.
or [Apple is] a PR company, more concerned with convincing you to buy something, than with the actual nature product.
Apple only spends about a third of the marketing budget that MS expends.
I want two or three mouse buttons.
If you click the touchpad with two fingers instead of one, you will get the "secondary click". Thats Apple's fancy name for a right click.
All that these so-called electric and fuel-cell vehicles do is shift the point source of the pollution and fuel consumption away from the vehicle and onto the electrical grid
That could be a good intermediate goal. Filtering the exhaust of a big carbon-using power plant can be much more effective, than filtering the exhaust of a lot of cars.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand