Only last month I was denouncing Apple products as overpriced, underpowered and anti-freedom. Yet, within the last two weeks, I have purchased not one but two Apple computers – a desktop and a notebook – both surplus to requirements and both at the more expensive end of the scale. I blame advertising.
We are well into the new year now, but when I walked in and asked to buy a near-top-of-the-line iMac, the salesman in the Apple Store must have thought it was Christmas all over again.