Err my 2 cents, the 'cent' character didn't show up properly for some reason.

While I agree that the numbers make the idea of an "iPhone Killer" somewhat silly, can we please put to rest this idea that Apple is driven by marketing? It's so far from the truth it's laughable. Apple makes products that are based on being designed for aesthetics and ease of use. The fact that they use well-designed marketing campaigns to promote their products is (and always has been) secondary to the design that goes into the products themselves. Besides, one would think that the landslide victory of the iPod in the personal music player arena would have driven home the fact that feature laundry lists aren't necessary for good appliance-type products, which is the other point that people who think Apple is all about marketing usually miss.

I'm not even sure what a good example of a marketing-based company is. Usually it seems more like shoddy companies just try to use marketing to shore up their shoddy products. My 2Â, anyway.

1) and 2) are both platform agnostic and accurate. I love how your "evidence" of the "by far the most common" reason is just an anecdote about an idiot. I'm sure we could all dredge up our stories of clueless Windows users and prop them up as evidence that "all Windows users are idiots", but it would be knocked down like the non-proof it is.

Fashionable though it be to bash Macs and those of us who use them, the reality continues to be that Macs tend to be better bang for your buck, and are overall a lot less prone to the issues with which Windows use is rife. Those of us with the familiarity to know that it's not "OS-X" could reference the Unix underpinnings or perhaps the fact that Apple's target population is USERS and not business/vendors like Microsoft, but at the end of the day, Apple generally puts out better stuff than Microsoft.

All this aside, as a fairly devoted Mac user, I have absolutely no interest in seeing a documentary about "MacHeads". At best, such a film could focus on the operating system and the practical benefits of its use, but:
1. Everybody who knows about this already doesn't need to see a film about it.
2. People who don't know about computers are very unlikely to go out of their way to see a documentary about "nerds" and nerdy topics.
At worst, as a previous poster said, this is just a lame attempt to ridicule a nerd subculture group to make a buck through a few cheap shots.

You link to a 13-year-old event, which itself is an outlier when measured by any standard.

When's the last time Hamas fired a rocket into Israel? Smart money is on "in the last 48 hours".

I know it's fashionable to be anti-Christian, but all of the evidence suggests that fundamentalist Muslims are both more common and more dangerous than fundamentalist Christians. Also, anybody else see the irony at anti-Christian comments in the discussion following an article about an anti-muslim overreaction?

I'm not sure how the comment above got modded 'insightful'- It has been the norm for several years now for Apple to offer primarily one-piece, mostly non-upgradable stuff. While you can often add RAM or swap out hard drives, a lot of the other stuff is integrated a lot more tightly, which is necessary to achieve the slim profiles and tiny footprints of, for example, G5 and later iMacs.

If you're a frequent upgrader or tinkerer, then obviously iMacs aren't for you- by all means, go with Linux or something and Do It Yourself, but the 'all-in-one' strategy has strengths as well as the weakness of limited expandability. In any case, none of this is news.

I've seen no evidence that the quality of the hardware has decreased... this looks more like you trying to blame your preferences toward expandability on Apple's decision not to cater to that market on the low end.