Comparing Apples to iPods

OK, I still haven't been able to let this whole iPod touch $20 app thing go. I keep seeing comments on various gadget blogs and the Apple support forum basically telling non-app iPod touch owners to stop their whining, while providing analogies in an attempt to prove that the owners are just plain stupid. Like this analogy, for example:

If you bought a Mac without iWork on it, and then a couple of months later, Apple released an update to iWork and decided to bundle it with new Macs, would you also expect to get iWork for free, even though you didn't have it in the first place?

This analogy, and others that have been offered, aren't even close to the iPod touch situation. A better analogy would be this:

You bought a Mac without iWork on it. iWork exists and will run on your Mac. However, Apple has also put support in place to block you from installing and running this very useful app or anything similar to it without voiding your warranty, in an effort to drive users that really want iWork to buy a more lucrative Mac that has features you don't need, along with additional costs you don't want. A short while later, Apple realizes this isn't working, and changes its strategy. (Or maybe this was the plan all along, to make it seem like they were doing a huge favor to the Mac community, meanwhile extorting additional money from current owners.) With a grand announcement, Apple now begins shipping your exact same model of Mac with iWork installed, for no extra cost. But if you want iWork now, you have to pay for it.

I know that ultimately this is my fault for settling for a device that didn't have all of the features i wanted, but wouldn't you feel that you were deliberately duped by Apple, a victim of its marketing game-playing? I wouldn't want a friend to treat me this way, why would I want to continue to patronize a company that does?