The salary I should have in order to buy Apple products?

Ok first off if you are planning what you want to be so you can buy apple products, or any brand name product, you need a lot of professional help.

Two it is my opinion that apple products are not that great, sure apple has a lot of innovations and they do a lot of neat things, but I honestly dont see them as being that revolutionary, not in so much as IBM and the research they have done to cure cancer, data mining algorithms, control traffic congestion, ext (keep in mind apple now uses the same hardware architecture IBM developed so many years ago)

Not to get into a debate of what company is better, besides IBM is out of the consumer line anymore.

But to answer your question, yes you should have enough, but it is important to live within your means. I dont see why you would want to update your phone every year, or would want an iphone anyways when there are debatable better competing products for less.

Well my salary is $178,000 a year and I buy PC, but I know people that make under $40K that have iPhone 4's and iMacs. Really, you don't have to make much money to afford apple products, just a few thousand dollars every couple years is all it takes.

A lot of times, the credible tech-reviewers on YouTube or anywhere else, usually have stuff sent to them for review. They don't buy everything they review.

You don't have to be rich to own Apple products. Most Mac users tend to buy a Mac product and not upgrade for quite a while; unlike Windows/Linux users. Therefore, you take the amount of money you would spend upgrading your PC over a year or two period, and compare it to the price of one iMac let's say, that is just fine "out of the box" left alone. You'll quickly realize you will probably spend more actually upgrading a PC than you would buying an iMac, MacBook, etc as a "one time" ordeal.

This falls into the category of Chris' Facebook post the other night I read on my phone, which I thought was well played...something to the effect of "most people who complain that Macs are too expensive are also the ones that spend $500+ on a video card."

I am a student in high school and I just get money out of Google AdSense about 100 dollars each month and I still have the ability to buy myself every Apple product I want. For example I have an iPad and I'm planning on buying a Mac Mini when Apple releases the new model and I think I'll be able to because it doesn't matter much about how much you make each year but about how you save your money and how you manage it. If you keep yourself from purchasing unnecessary things each day like coffees and candy and magazines or whatever, you can save enough to buy any Apple product you like..

I would say learn Windows and Linux like what someone has already stated. Windows isn't going anywhere anytime soon, and Linux is HUGE on servers not to mention mobile devices coughAndroidcough...

As for spending your money, I find it very hard to waste my money on a system with such little specs for the price I'm paying for it. And not to mention the limited amount of control you are offered on your machine. No thank you.