I think you are reaching, lets look at the facts.

1) iTunes DRM: Apple tricked the music industry into selling music online to Mac users with such liberal usage terms that many people will never know they bought into DRM. This was such a success the labels couldn't help but allow Windows users access and that was such a success, one of the labels gave in and dropped DRM! This lead to others giving up DRM (to another store in an attempt to counter the strength of iTunes) and now all the labels have started offering DRM free music......YEH APPLE!

2) .Mac, shouldn't it just be free? Nothing's free! Google sells directed ads and is amassing a huge database about us all. They never gave the kind of bandwidth access .mac gave and it is currently very competitive. Find 10GB of WebDAV accessible storage for less than the $70/year .mac costs (you can always buy it at a discount). Further, iWeb does publish to any server, just publish to a folder and FTP or if you found that WebDAV server mentioned above, publish to that (That's all .mac does). As for developer support? They could support these features via FTP too, but WebDAV is easier (as it looks like a network drive). Apple makes things that work and developers follow.

3) I'll admit the iPod touch update is odd and a $4.95 update probably would make more sense but I think this is a precursor of things to come. Apple will be making software updates to the iPhone and iPod touch just like they make updates to iLife, iWork, and OS X. These updates will be $20 (my guess) and setting the price now for substantial additional features seems reasonable. These people purchased the Touch with no expectation that these features would be added. I wonder if people would have been as outraged if the iPod Touch dropped in price to $279 instead? Companies have to continue to add value to products and because of this some people are going to feel screwed! Get over it!

4) iPhone SDK, cry me a river! OK, so maybe Apple was both evil and stupid and never intended to make an SDK and was forced by the ground swell of complaints and the awesome hacker community. OR! Maybe the SDK was always planned and the mobile version of OS X that shipped with the iPhone was nowhere near complete at introduction (which is evident by the massive changes made in the past 6 months). Now! do you delay the iPhone release by 6 months to get the SDK correct (as your competitors swoop in to steal your thunder) or do you release what you have and deliver the SDK when it is ready?

5) Time Capsule/Airport Extreme: I'm betting we have not heard the last word on this. It appears that Apple intended to get things working with the Airport Extreme (and maybe still do) but performance was so poor they pulled the feature. In an attempt to satisfy demand, they saw that a redesigned piece of hardware (with a SATA interface to the drive) could get around the issues. I could be wrong but I'd guess that a future update will add this ability to the Airport units as well. As for Time Machine without hard links? Are you seriously purposing hourly clone backups? Sorry if your NAS is not up to the task but I'm going to give Apple the benefit of the doubt here too!