Like democracy, it's a rotten way to do things... except that all of the rest are worse.

Intel & ADM & IBM kludgey CPUs. Garrumph!
Whatever happened to RISC?
Whatever happened to elegance?
Whatever happened to competition?
Whatever happened to honest Country of Origin Labeling?

And what's with this odd fixation on "thin" for the apparent sake of "thin"?!
I'd much much prefer something several times as thick and a heftier battery at an eighth of the price.