Here my take if you care to listen....
Apple is a company who is totally guilty of doing all the nefarious consumer ripoffs that Microsoft is constantly and falsely accused of doing.
The Apple culture is one that locks the user into a contract....unwritten........that forces said user to get most if not all of the services that Apple offers in a perpetual way.
The said users are not only comfortable with this arrangement, they defend it like junkies.
The whole thing is very worrisome to me. I have witnessed all sort of business models in all kinds of products, and only twice have I see this sort of emotion conveyed by users of a service or product in defense of the company.
The only other one was AMWAY.
Do what you feel like doing, cuz it's a free country and you can spend you money anyway you please. But don't try to get me hooked on your passions, because I very much don't like proprietary product/service schemes, and avoid them like the plaque and book clubs.