If you consider the cost overhead in dealing with numbers that low, you can see why they dropped the fruit from the computer aisles. They were loosing money sacraficing inventory bandwith that could have been allocated for real computers that the people actually wanted. You see, enthusiasts aside, no one really wants a looser computer. At least one that's loosing marketshare faster than Clinton's pantline - but I digress. Since Apple became invisible in the marketplace, the public demand moved on.
Retail outlets sell things that are supposed to sell themselves.
You're not supposed to expect people to make 6 bucks an hour and suddenly be consultants to the techno crowd. No, what they do is stock the shelves, tell people what isle they can be found, and where the customer service department is. To assume otherwise is to bend reality to the whims of delusion. But then this isn't anything new to the MacJihad. It's fun to wax nostalga about your hobbies and interrests as you get older.