Dude, if you gotta ask you don't understand. Why do people drive Porsche when you could save oh so much money and drive a Ford Fusion. Well darn it why don't they make the Porsche as cheap to drive as the Ford... darn darn darn.... then everybody could...
Go clip your coupons, For me if the current pricing structure of Apple produces the machine I love so much, so be it, if this is the cost of it well let me pony up.
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