It's a little different when a single, minority system vendor who is selling systems at twice the price does something like this, vs. when the dominant player i

It's a little different when a single, minority system vendor who is selling systems at twice the price does something like this, vs. when the dominant player in 90% of the market wants to require it of all the PC vendors. It doesn't make Apple right, but the surface area affected was much smaller so the objections were commensurately sparse.