there is a huge amount of comfortable people who are bought into the whole Apple ecosystem. Everything they use is Apple, it all looks, is built and works together very well and they have spent multiple amounts over the years than what this costs on its own. Cost is not important for them. Even monitor stands can never be classed as expensive.
Brand loyalty, consumerism, platform lock in. It's the reason why Apple is so wealthy.
People will defend the investment of their time and money by investing more.
It’s part but I think you disregard many of its “pro” userbase that prefers the often best-in-class hardware with okay software, which is much more privacy oriented than the alternative.
At least on the phone market, iphones have much longer lifetime and can often be used second-third time as well (I also use a used iphone, which I plan on passing down to my mother when I upgrade). Their M-series laptops are unbiasedly the best and it is not even funny by how far. There is simply no competitor that would be anywhere near on the performance-battery life plot, and for that its price is really not high (especially an M1 air, used or new).
Android’s wearables are toys compared to an apple watch also.
Brand loyalty, consumerism, platform lock in. It's the reason why Apple is so wealthy.
People will defend the investment of their time and money by investing more.