"Excellence" is achieved by those devices that represent the nirvana state of electronics that simply work together withoutany fussing by the consumer.
Not every state has a mandatory land fill ban on their electronics, meaning that in some states it is legal to throw stuff out withoutany regard for environmental or health damage.
It's genuinely difficult to think of a flagship consumer electronics product, with a display of any kind, being engineered in the year 2013 without at least some level of internet connectivity in mind.