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It's a strategy to push customers toward the more expensive models. Their markup is massive, it's a blatant profit move.
And, since the ram is soldered to the fucking mobo, you can't upgrade it yourself. It's a ridiculous and craven strategy for a company already nickel and diming their customers.
but the cultists still love them.
They've being doing this for a very long time, and they do it on all their idevices too (with storage).