Let's take a closer look at your claims.
"I’ve been using their products for majority of my life, and not once I’ve had a idea of showing off my phone as a status symbol" - I think you are misunderstanding the point. It's not that *you the customer* want it as a status symbol - Apple wants its customers to feel that Apple products are all top-tier and the best of the best. (No, other brands in this field don't do this. Apple is pretty much alone in selling zero budget options and insisting on a huge branding markup on all products, though some others do have markups, such as e.g. Alienware or certain builders like Digital Storm.)
"I also don’t think that Apple users are unintelligent. They are some people who are downright more talented than me. They are a BUNCH of professionals that uses Macs and iPads as their tools, and some people makes a living of its tools due to it being a good experience for them." - I already addressed this in the article. Yes, there are professionals who use Apple products - and that is quite a small niche of professionals, compared to those who use non-Apple products. In addition, that's in many cases more out of habit or compatibility reasons (another Apple problem, as they go to great efforts to make their products as incompatible as possible with other systems for vendor lock-in reasons, not something one can say of other brands) than because of Apple products being superior.
"They do sell arguably overpriced products that it’s features that’s could be founded elsewhere for a more affordable price and but that isn’t all of their products. There are parts that are worth it’s value, I do want to say not to ignore it." - Which products? Every single apple product you can find is significantly overpriced for what you get from any other comparable brand - iMacs, macbooks, iPhones, iPads - which product is it that you think does not qualify as overpriced? The M1 MacBook Air you refer to is unquestionably overpriced for what you get; getting an equivalent system from any custom laptop builder is quite a bit cheaper, even at the time it was released. The M1 counts as an improvement on past Apple laptops, but it's still not good value for money. I note that for the same price you can get a gaming laptop with an RTX 3060 and other superior specs in it - good luck using Apple's integrated graphics chips to render games on a 2500x1600 screen.
"They now have choices like the $329 iPad, that has arguably value for money for its software support and features per dollar for those who are looking for a tablet for themselves or their kids" - what value for money? Tablets like the Galaxy A series are almost 40% cheaper with equivalent specifications ($210 on Amazon and elsewhere), and Samsung is pretty much the best known brand for Android tablets. The only possible argument in favour of value for money on iPads is Procreate, and that only applies to a small percentage of users.
Nothing about the Apple section I wrote was closed-minded. It was an objective evaluation of what Apple currently does and has been doing for a relatively long time now. Overcharging isn’t unique to Apple — some other brands do that as well — but no brand is as guilty as Apple is of marketing unnecessary hardware to customers, overcharging for the actual components being offered, and not offering budget options.
