of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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If by "+1000 dollars" you mean "about $600," then yes. Your larger point, however, may be correct -- charging about twice the retail price for memory upgrades seems to be something of a bargain for Apple...
http://www.buy.com/prod/crucial-8gb-ddr3-sdram-memory-module-8gb-2-x-4gb-1066mhz-ddr3-1066-pc3/q/loc/101/210477887.html?dcaid=15890
It is $1000 to upgrade the 24" iMac from 4gb of memory to 8gb, not $600. And it is $1100 to upgrade the 20" iMac from 2gb of memory to 8gb. Not $600.
And of course, I realize that the memory is available for around $600 elsewhere, and I realize that DDR3 is expensive at the moment.
So when I said that it costs $1000+, I was referring to the price gouging that Apple is trying to get away with. I've never seen them try to rip people off by such a huge margin.