Do you blame the mortgage companies for people buying more house than they could afford? Were they “brainwashed” into owning a $500K house on a $40K salary?
Apple does not have to extort money from buyers. Instead Apple uses peer pressure to program children and teenagers to extort money from their parents to buy “cool” Apple laptops and peripheral junks such as ipods, etc. Parents are driven crazy. They are extorted into buying overpriced Jobsian junks for their brats instead of generic MP3 players and generic smartphones