I think that there is an answer to this one. It runs along the same lines as why did so many of us get caught up with buying second rate computers (PCs and I use one), support a softaware comapany (Microsoft) that has has written some of the worst operating systems that have ever been known, support VHS instead of the vastly superior Betamax... We might hide behind other reasons but isn't it possible that we are all to some degree led by marketing and use inferior products because of it.

Jon