Isn't Apple's entire business model selling to a minority of users who are willing to spend more for their products?

It's not self-evident that the minority of users who care about privacy is related to the minority of users who prefer Apple products.

I see, so the pessimistic view you suggested above is that Apple has had such remarkable success selling to its subset of the market in spite of its inability to integrate big data into its products. This could be true, though it seems a bit less likely than a more direct explanation that Apple is selling its customers what they prefer.

I mostly only own Apple stuff because of the privacy reasons (and that their are the only company which got scrolling animations/feel right)