The hard drives and RAM are by far the most overpriced components in Macs, and I see this as nothing more than Apple trying to squeeze out some extra mo

The hard drives and RAM are by far the most overpriced components in Macs, and I see this as nothing more than Apple trying to squeeze out some extra money. It won't be deliberate. The Apple engineers must be capable guys, and a rule from on-high to hurt customers like that would have a bad awful effect on morale in a team of good engineers. They're an integrated hardware company and probably a bit of an echo-chamber. This will be an accident from that.