A Reader's Voice Comment About Mac Prices

The Market will bear what the Market will bear.

I think Jason Snell's tweet covers this:
"@Gartenberg Apple sold 2.3M laptops at an average price of $1,265 per unit. Imagine how much money it could have lost if it had a netbook!"
http://twitter.com/jsnell/status/5008709948

Apple is not competing at the bottom of the market, they are in the mid to high end market (Although the Mac Mini is hardly a break-the-bank computer, starting at $599). From their quarterly results, I'd say thats working pretty well for them.

What I'd really like is if Acura would lower their prices on the Acura TL. I know that I could buy a Mazda 6 for about a little more than half the price of the TL. They are, of course, both sedans that will get me to work. I can't understand why they would be priced differently. Is that an Acura tax?

If Microsoft built Cell phones, media players, pocket sized wireless routers , networked hard drive archival devices ,laptops, desktops , servers and worked easily with computer and automotive vendors accessory devices and made them run reliably would that make them a value ?
Also if HP / Dell / others wrote operating system and multimedia application suites would that confuse the market more or show real faith in the american business system ?