Agreed but the problem is directly linked to human nature, we only seem to really learn by our own experience and not by other's referred experiences and actions; sometimes we don't catch on for a loooong time even then.
I bought a Rev. B G3 Bondi Blue iMac after waiting to find what was wrong with Rev. A one.
Apple only put 2mb of video RAM on the Rev. A's Rage Pro Turbo. They bumped it to 6mb on the B simply by putting another 4mb in a slot they had already fitted to the original motherboard. So Apple knew they would likely get flack for the very low video memory.
The 6mb one was still weak and I added an 8mb Voodoo2 on the mezzanine slot to solve its feeble 3D ability.
I bought the first G4 iMac (15"LCD 800mhz CPU) then realised I should have waited for the 17" widescreen Rev. B....
I bought the last PowerPC G5 64bit iMac (20" 2Ghz) just before the following Core Duo iMac was released. That Intel one was only 32bit when its Rev. B Core2Duo was 64bit. By now I was beginning to catch on.
I waited till an 8 core Mac Pro was available in 2008 before going for a workstation, it was the right choice I think but how many times did I get burned before I learned?
IF every one could learn from these experiences and actually resisted the hype just once (I know it is a fantasy) then the corporate mindset of the world's fattest company would be changed forever and for the better.
I can dream, but I know it
is only a dream.