You may jump to Google based on the price of accessories you don’t have to get?
Since you apparently aren't catching on to his real point, let help you out.
It's the philosophy, direction and actions of Apple in the last few years that he doesn't like. This is one of those "last straw" type of things. I myself am nearing that point also. For me it's being mostly driven by how they treat the Mac's and how they've had to openly talk about their design failure of the MacPro and lets not forget the stupid carrot they're holding out there for folks who love the mac mini, or their flawed keyboard design.
Apple is a phone and services company.