> I'm puzzled that people are willing buy a computer/OS where (apparently) software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down.
For the same reason every human frequently makes decisions with greater-than-zero risk: because we're either unaware of the risk, or because we believe the tradeoff is a good one, and the benefits are worth the risk-adjusted costs.
For the same reason every human frequently makes decisions with greater-than-zero risk: because we're either unaware of the risk, or because we believe the tradeoff is a good one, and the benefits are worth the risk-adjusted costs.