Apple is the modern day equivalent of the Great Pyramids. All that meticulous design, all that money, all the sweat and tears - and for what? So that, for a pr

Apple is the modern day equivalent of the Great Pyramids. All that meticulous design, all that money, all the sweat and tears - and for what? So that, for a price, we may all have beautiful, lickable technical gewgaws to idle away the hours. Apple revolutionized media distribution, mobile entertainment, phones, and tablet computing - that much is obvious. They may even revolutionize more. People will wax mawkish and claim that Apple has "given" them happiness and wonderment. I suppose not unlike the awe in the eyes of ancient Egyptian commoners as they gazed up at their civilization's most lasting technical achievements. But at what cost? Eighty billion dollars in the bank and literally the largest market cap in the world and Apple gives a pittance in the way of charitable donations. Their corporate charity pathetically dwarfed by that of peers such as Microsoft or Google. Even more so by their financial equals like Walmart or Exxon Mobil. All that money, all that energy and potential for humanity and it all goes up on the most finely crafted of altars. Disappearing in nothing more than a nice, tight little cycle of ever obsoleting gadgetry. I'm over it.