Sadly, I know all of this.
It doesn't hurt to dream though, right?
This is why I always used to swear by Archos, but its getting hard to find their products and they are also much clunkier and unattractive than Apple gadgets, so I had to turn to the dark side.
I miss the days when Apple made good shit without caring about market share. Before they switched to Intel processors in their macs and macbooks. Now they are really just glorified PCs.