Tom, to tell you the truth, I loathe apple, not their products, rather their mentality and business practices.
Yes you’re correct, in a world where someone like Steve Jobs is almost canonized, it makes you indeed wonder.
Unfortunately we will probably be forced into buying one of these soon. I resisted the encroachment of the personal tether technology until the bitter end, when I was forced to comply, i.e. pagers, mobiles, laptops etc.. In fact on the weekends I turn my phone off completely and unless I’m working, I have it on silent 😆 I remember a time when people, yes even kids, could leave the house WITHOUT a phone… THE HORROR of those dark ages.
This is just the pre phase of total control, just before they make it a law that we must have a chip implanted at birth due to terrorism control or tax control, some such sound reason 🙄