Where I work, customers used to ask us for fuses. We didn’t want to sell them as they cost nothing, and it bothered us to have stocks of this… So, the decision was made to put a crazy high price on it (like 100 times the price of a fuse )… Some customers still ask to buy fuses from us …
Apple probably doesn’t want to sell spare parts(to discourage people to repair their devices, or another reason), but they may be forced to do it, so they put crazy prices on it.
A dick move, but "hey, as long as it works ! "
What RAM expansions? Maybe for older Intel machines, but Apple Silicon or ARM doesn’t allow for expansions due to memory being integrated into the SOC. Still pay $200 for 8 Gb at system invoicing.
Well, it is not exactly as if having to buy a new SoC to get more RAM is any better. That is really just a form of bundling things that don’t need to be bundled.
2666 Mhz vs 3200 Mhz
With Apple having the slower frequency of course.
“Apple customers are paying 16 times more” is just a general truism
Apple still sells memory?
Maybe not, given it’s sold out in the screenshot. It would be for fairly old machines only, Intel iMacs from before 2020.
