And I echo Torpx's comments. It isn't my intention to offend owners of Apple and Sony products. THEY are not any of those things that the companies they buy from are. Clearly, it is apparent that my string of adjectives belongs to the companies and not their customers, isn't it? If that is not apparent I apologize to anyone who chose to wear those nasty descriptions as their own. They don't belong to you. Give them back, please.
Now I have made a decision that not one penny of mine will purchase even one of either Apple's or Sony's products. The reason for this is that people will do whatever you pay them to do. In their minds, buying their products is an endorsement of their amoral cutthroat way of business, and in fact, a request that they do MORE of it. Without income they are powerless to do any of it. Surely you can see where my line of thought is headed.
We, by purchasing from crooks, tell them to steal. Our stamp of approval is on ever nasty deed they do. Include me out please. I choose not to participate.
My wife's $199.99 LePan TC 970 android tablet does 90% of what an $850+ Apple iPad does and does not support totalitarianism. I also have $650 in my pocket that otherwise would not be there. I'm not deprived in any way by standing for principle. Similarly, there is an equal or better alternative to every single product that Sony makes and no suffering is necessary to freeze them out of my life.