Because Apple are the nickel-and-dime masters.
From removing headphone sockets in order to sell stupidly expensive wireless headphones, to stupidly overpriced soldered memory and storage upgrades, to the 30% appstore fee scam, to disallowing local backups to promote their iCloud storage racket, to unrepairable devices where you can't even replace a battery, to keyboards that need motherboard replacement to replace a key, to disallowing WebGPU so victims can't play online games instead of the games they take their 30% cut from, to proprietary connectors that they abandon a year later, to iPhone displays that can't even be replaced with another legitimate iPhone display, they do everything in their power to lock-in and bleed their victims dry.
Literally everything they do is a scam to nickel-and-dime their victims.
Every item they sell has all these arbitrary limitations just so they can take a cut.
They are usually the first to do every terrible consumer-hostile action because their victims are locked-in suckers with Stockholm syndrome whose devices don't work with any other companies devices or accessories.
And then other companies see their success and copy them.
So naturally any conversation about companies being assholes will skew towards discussing Apple, because they are the biggest and most successful assholes.