WHAT? I Bought it But I Don't Own It?

Blister the Crabbe here and I have a question to ask of the appropriate manufacturers and distributors of a few certain products and or services. Ready? Here's my question -where do you get off selling people something that they're never going to own fully?

Here's an example: Applesauce. When I was growing up, there were only a couple of ways to get applesauce -you (or your grandma) could make it yourself, or you could go down to the nearest Grocery Store and buy a can of it. These days, however, Granny's too busy playing BINGO and the local Grocery Store is now so close you barely have to leave your easy chair to acquire a container of applesauce -but what, no! Now that you have your applesauce -you can't seem to get it out of the jar! What is with the shape of this jar that is so attractive? If I paid for the contents, why the heck can't I have it? I can only get about 75% of the content out of the jar but I STILL have to pay 100% of the price! What gives?

Now, let's talk about computers. After all, a lousy buck-and-a-quarter for some applesauce isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to a new laptop. Now, I understand the concept of buying a car on credit -you don't "own" it until the loan is paid off - but a computer -you can buy one outright on any given payday, if you have a good job. Still, regardless of where you bought it, what brand you purchased or how much you paid for it -you don't own it.

You could be working on a burgeoning deadline -the clock is ticking, the sweat is dripping, the file is nearly complete and then -BAM! the computer has to shut off to download some updates that you didn't want -didn't know you needed and -don't even know what they are or what they're for! Nothing you can do can about it -if you didn't save your file up to the minute, you're ... well, you know...