> [WS:] "Choice" is the central concept in the Anglo-Saxon culture, and
> the central pillar of legitimacy in the neoliberal social order, but
> in other cultures it is a negligible aspect of life dominated largely
> by fate. Since I did not grow up in America, my concept of choice is
> closer to the latter than to the former. To be more precise, I view
> it as a minor annoyance of having to pick up one of several brands of
> the same kind of schlock, where having just one would do and save me
> the trouble of having to make a decision.
And yet you reserve the greatest opprobrium for Apple :-).
-- ravi