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
Again, these people aren’t responsible for making the decison to “give in” to their kids? It’s still a choice that someone makes. Nobody at Apple HQ is controlling anyone and making them buy an Apple.