It's not about nannying, it's about Apple doing damage to their brand. They are the largest publicly held corporation in the world, yet a lot of their important brands are languishing and have become terrible values for the money because they haven't been updated in four years. I know very few people who have bought Apple PCs recently.
I'm using a Macbook Pro Retina that I got in the 2013 refresh cycle, and if it were to get stolen tomorrow I'd buy a Windows PC to replace it because buying essentially the same laptop three years later for the same price makes no sense when the rest of the industry has moved on a lot more. As the "tech guy" in my extended family and friends group, a lot of people come to me for laptop-buying advice, and I haven't been able to recommend anything Apple in over a year.