If it were a level playing field I'd be inclined to agree with you, but it isn't. These companies are hiring specialists in the psychology of creating a sense of need where there is no need. It doesn't work on everyone for everything but there are people who are susceptible to these techniques and they're the people funding everything. The issue isn't people spending their money on what they want, it's them being put in the situation where they feel compelled to purchase things and encouraged to do so by companies who know full well that these people can't handle it and will cough up the dough no matter what comes their way.

I. AM. A. SOVEREIGN. CITIZEN.

I'm agreeing with you.

It's not even just built their brand, built the damn software, documentation, did a lot of the testing and put up with pis being a bit dodgy out of the box for a year every time a new model came out.

Isn't the point of school uniforms that everyone wears the same thing, there's no little Jonny in his Walmart jeans getting teased by Tarquin in his Versace.

Money spent on hot ass is money well spent

GNU pTerry

Nah, Firefox went through a buggy resource hungry slow period for sure. Chrome was miles better, I'm making the jump back. I kind of have been by default on Ubuntu, but I'll probably switch on phone too.

You only have stuff you use every day?

GNU pTerry

Longing for what you can never have, alas

Presumably they have to be good/generate interactions.