Once Risc-V reaches 1.0 there will be a whole swarm of little tech companies building on the platform, so it's only a matter of time before these devices are as cheap as they should be. Apple's fantastic stock performance is all about their monopoly premium. With equally good quality stuff made for half the price they will be forced to open up just like Microsoft now has had to fully integrate Canonical's system into their systems because nobody runs web servers on Windows!