Apple made themselves cool again... without the quality of engineering to back it up, I suppose.

Which, of course, is good, because when that 'sexy' clear polycarbonate is scratched to shit and covered in stains that've slowly turned to black mold and left you looking like a wannabe trying to suck Death Vegetable's dick at Defcon...

...it means, in theory, you get to blow another $1,000+ on an Apple.

It's another beautiful irony; the company with the Californian-hippie image is really, quietly, sneaking in as much or more planned obsolescence (and I don't see any recycling bins- pardon the pun- at Apple stores) than

Also, analogy time- Apple wanted to be GM. GM was a pretty unprofitable business for god knows how long. Now they've somehow become Mazda. Different, but populist.