[citation][nom]peacock[/nom]Wow. Love it or hate it, but that is a damn waste and a stupid thing to do. I know lots of people who can't even afford a $200 netbook and would love to have a use for this. Sad that people would go and do such a thing, especially in this economy just to show off a damn blender.[/citation]
This kind of logic doesn't work.
It's quite funny how people will get pissed about them blending an iPad, because it's a physical object, yet wouldn't bat an eyelid if they spent $500 advertising the blender some other way.
You might aswell say, "How can all these companies waste so much money on advertising when they could give it to charity?".
Sure, that would be nice, but that isn't how the world works.