> just wish people understood how much they’re being manipulated by Apple’s marketing here. Credit to them: they’re the best in the world —- if Tim Cook decided

> just wish people understood how much they’re being manipulated by Apple’s marketing here. Credit to them: they’re the best in the world —- if Tim Cook decided to sell cigarettes, he’d have most of us on two packs a day and believing it’s good for us by Christmas. This is such a hoary old argument usually made by those who believe a product value is only measured by the cost of the hardware components comprising it, not how it was packaged or how it works or the experience it’s custom software enables. Of course in this case, if your job is selling snake oil, you think everyone’s job is selling snake oil.