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Unless you are talking Canadian or Australian dollars, you are drinking the "Apple products are way overpriced" coolaid.

The iPhone starts at free (for a 3GS), $99 (for a 4), and $199 (for a 4S). The Galaxy Note is $300. So is the Droid Razr Maxx. Even the Blackberry Bold is $230!

The AppleTV is $99. The Macbook air starts at $999, and they are rumored to be releasing a $799 version soon. The Macbook Pro starts at $1199. Sure you can buy cheaper PC laptops, but you can also buy PC laptops for many thousands of dollars.

They sold 35 million phones...just last quarter. Probably will be 150-200 million units this year. Do you think there are 200 million fanatics?

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I wasn't refering to a contract, as not everyone has the patience to wait for their upgrade.

While I am aware the starting price of the macbook air is currently 999$, that is the 11" 64gb version. They can go up to as much as 1600$ to my knowledge, so I decided to take what I figured was fair and went with the 1300$ one. You may disagree, that's fine, but at least I didn't use the high end of the spectrum, where as you're clearly citing the lowest.

Do I think there are 200 million fanatics? no. Do all the fanatics I know and have dealt with don't just settle for one device? They sure don't. I think that the hook is many people that go apple then try to fill every single niche in their life with an apple product. Tivo? Why not apple TV. Stereo? Why not iPod dock. and so on.