Strange way of working - First time Mac and disappointed

Hi,
On 24 dec 2005 I bought my first iMac, in a the biggest Apple store in Antwerp.
I asked if this was the best available now, and it was.
Two weeks later a new iMac comes out, with same price for double performance and new software.
At the moment I bought the iMac they knew already that this was an 'old' model.
Also the fact that iLife05 is sold to me when two weeks later iLife06 comes out (and I have to pay for it to get it).
Sorry, but that is really taking money and run.
Are these normal practices in the Mac world?
Apparently my post gets removed
(critics are silenced in the perfect Mac world?)
You can reach me at [email protected]

Your post was removed because it contains no technical question, merely a complaint. If you had asked for help with a problem, no matter how querulous the tone of your post, it would have stayed. This is a technical support forum and you evidently don't want/need technical support, so expect this thread to vanish, too. Those are the rules you agreed to when you signed up here.

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