Because at one point, the high costs were justified in Apples quality, along with the innovation at the time. Each product they came out with was something out of the future. My old iPods/iPads/Airport Extreme router still work after 10 years. But after Steve Jobs died, things changed, the quality just wasn't there anymore, it was more or less the same exact products since 10 years ago, and any "innovation" they claim has been done by competitors like Android years before, and the costs have skyrocketed.

Thats my reasoning for not liking Apple anymore. It has nothing to do with "envy" although I'm sure some Apple users might wish to see things that way.