Jelly Bean can already do that. There is another comment below that mentions how to do it in Kit Kat.

I have an 80 GB IDE hard drive in my old desktop machine that's still alive and kicking from - I'm not even sure how old it is. At least 10 years, I'd say. I use it for temporary storage.

Don't mean to imply that it does. I'm just commenting on how things got to this point. Also, I would add that the iPod / iPhone have been extremely key in keeping the Mac viable as well, although more so in people's homes and not the corporate world. But rewind the clock 20 years, and most people probably didn't have a computer at home.
I was in a big engineering school back in the early 90's, and I had to take a technical writing class. I was randomly enrolled into a 'special' version of the class - the first that was going to be all done on Mac's. We had plenty of other computers around back then, mostly PC's and SparcStations. The only place the Mac was used was in the humanities writing lab; I'm not sure there were any other ones anywhere on campus. That was their niche. They couldn't run the technical software we used in other classes and normal students could never afford one for their dorm room. This was the hole they started from.

Mac's [sic] never made it in the corporate space because they were monolithic and overpriced. With a PC, you could put one together with as few or as many different components as you wanted, of varying capabilities according to your needs, and different hardware manufacturers would compete driving innovation and dropping prices. Also, PC's had a head start. Before there were Windows or Macs, there was MSDOS. There was a lot of software written for DOS and Windows would run them (mostly). Or at least allow them to be run. This was a big deal. The deck was stacked against the Mac from the start. Having said that, I'm still impressed that they're still around and doing quite well.

or - acquisition in 3... 2... 1...

NASA.

Spam City, here we come. Why is this opt-out instead of opt-in? Because nobody would want it.

Yup. They just did that where I live ... Almost 30% increase spread over 3 years. They also like to use updating or modernizing equipment as an excuse. It's always seemed to me like that sort of thing should have been baked into the price to start with. You know things don't last forever.

They ought to allocate $100 or $200 of the purchase price for a 'free' inspection by a licensed electrician of the main charging location. They could even use it as an opportunity to try to sell charging accessories.