Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
As a teenager, I subscribed to MacAddict from 1997-2001.  It was very exciting to watch the company transform over this time.  Alas, since then my relationship to Apple has evolved dramatically, to the point of more or less despising the company and its manipulations.  I am grateful for this journey.  It has given me a sharp sense (distaste) for manipulative marketing tactics and branding in general.  When my hard drive crashed badly in 2010, I quit for good, jumping over to Ubuntu full time.  (More recently I installed Arch, which makes me excited about computers again!)<p>Anyway, It&#x27;s completely frustrating to me even my most financially disabled friends will, to this day, look to spend $1200 as much on a Mac laptop or an iPhone when they could get an equally powerful, used machine for $150.  A close friend of mine just spent $300 on a used G5 iMac from 2006... I told him not to but he didn&#x27;t listen.  He has had to learn the hard way that the computer is slow, won&#x27;t accept updates, won&#x27;t run any new software or drivers, etc. because Apple&#x27;s branding black magic is <i>that</i> powerful, that it could completely trump the well reasoned advice of someone knowledgable about the subject that you&#x27;ve known for years.