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If Microsoft made toasters…

If Microsoft made toasters…Every time you bought a loaf of bread, you would have to buya toaster. You wouldn’t have to take the toaster, but you’dstill have to pay for it anyway. Toaster’95 would weigh 15000pounds (hence requiring a reinforced steel countertop), drawenough electricity to power a small city, take up 95% of thespace in your kitchen, would claim to be the first toasterthat let’s you control how light or dark you want your toastto be, and would secretly interrogate your other appliances tofind out who made them. Everyone would hate Microsoft toasters,but nonetheless would buy them since most of the good breadonly works with their toasters.

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