Bull. I bought my Mac way back in grad school because it came with GCC for free, and I could do my research work (coding for a large collaboration) while listening to iTunes, plus write documents with MS Word, all without dual-booting. This was 2002, so Linux wasn’t a great option for laptops: I had to travel with it…

Actually, most Apple customers do care about value since their products last longer, and hold their value much better than their counterparts. The side-effect of having more affluent customers is that most of them have the rescources to buy new devices every cycle...this appears to only be a big deal to the people who…