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apple tax is no more in price of the device, as those are cheap for apple now.

Apple tax today is control!

While mobiles are moving farther from the locked-in model (i get my phones unlocked for some 5 yrs, and before that, used to unlock them) apple is moving computers to it.

An apple store on the desktop, with DRMed software, is a full circle to mainframe in computer history.

Heck! the iphone, with subsided price along with mandatory monthly bills and approved catalog of software and only one choice of network is already as close the main frame as you can get!

It would be interesting to compare the at&t iphone contract with a 70's IBM mainframe lease one. anybody has one around? :)