Time to correct myself.
I was generalizing for "Apple" products being too expensive.
It is true that the ipad is a sort of exception. If you take other tablets / e-readers with the same functionality they are indeed in the same price range.
However, many of their other products are not. From the iphone through the ipod you can find alternatives which are way cheaper with the same configuration. Take for instance the first iphone, which was released here for 600 euro's, and was limited to 2G support (while most phones had already 3G support).
Only the new OS version of Mac (for iphone, ipod, not imac) supports multithreading (bit weird in my opinion).
But ok I admit, the ipad is until now a good product which comes at a decent price
(until asus releases his DR-950 )