Apple's premium iPad memory

I'm an Apple user of 18 months but not an Apple fanboy, and I have a long history of Linux, Windows and Unix use before that.  I've found that the two things i dislike most about Apple are Apple the company, which is largely a manifestation of Steve Jobs, and the Apple fanboys that enable Apple. 

What other company could get away charging a $200 premium for an extra 48G of memory?  Unless this is some especially fast or one chip memory I just can believe that premium price.  But Apple do it because they can, and Apple fans will pay because they just do.   Elsewhere a 32GB memory stick sells for about $70 and thats retail.  I can't beleive the extra memory costs Apple more than $50 extra, that's a nice little earner. 

And of course any other company would have built a product with a USB port or two AND an SD-memory slot but no, if you want memory you're gonna have to pay for it, and if you want to put photos or content on your ipad you're going to need another computer to upload from.

All i can say is "Boo!" I'm not going to buy your iPad or and iPhone and i never will.  I might, just might get a new Macbook Pro if they ever get upgraded, just at this point I'm just as likely to get a laptop and stick Ubuntu on it. 

I wish Apple luck - i have a feeling the ipad will be popular with people who are not computer users (young kids and old people) but the jury is out on whether most computer using households will find this a useful item to drop some serious $$ on.