you confuse cause and effect. had apple not locked in earlier customers with such tactics since forever (they never had any standard port or media for example)

you confuse cause and effect. had apple not locked in earlier customers with such tactics since forever (they never had any standard port or media for example) they wouldn't have had the marketing budgets required to convince you that they can deliver experiences for 60x markup. see, you're the next batch paying for the marketing that will come for things like vr