It's practical and the proof is that people are more than willing to pay the insane markup. How could it be the worst invention of the last few decades?
If the problem is waste, that's something for the government to sort out.
Trust on the press by the public is in a (slow) free fall, personally I think the Lügenpresse has their days counted. It's one of the few good things of the social network era, they can't get away with their lies.
I don't think he was being dismissive; the title of this submission is deceitful. I also expected that the Mac would be doing the decoding and playing.