I come from France, and since the first iPod and IPhone, our medias here have been making a parallel marketing campaign to praise every piece of shit hardware Apple have been randomly spawning.
My explanation, is that mainstream tech journalist are not techs, they are just a bunch of n00bs who don't know to handle a windows/linux based computer, and prefer the oversimplicity of the apple stuff. Besides, when I am happy with my black desktop tower, always half opened to change the hardware more easily, with cables everywhere like in the Brazil movie; these so called journalist prefer white shiny stuff, even if it's full of shit, as long as they can read their mails.
Basically, the casuals are still in a blind crusade against tech-savvy people, without even knowing it.
