When I spent $2,200 two weeks ago for a Sony Vaio SZ laptop, I thought I was buying something I’d own — something that would be mine. That, apparently, was not Sony’s view of our transaction.
Sony had presold my desktop — my $2,200 desktop — to a bunch of companies which loaded it with craplets.
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