Again, expecting a manufacturer to support accessories that it has no control over is ... illogical.
OK, so, let's use my PC as an example. It has USB ports, and I can plug all sorts of things into them, most commonly memory sticks and a card reader. Microsoft don't force me to buy memory sticks only from them, I can use any make of stick I want and be pretty damned sure that it'll work, as USB is USB.
Now let's look at Apple. It has a USB port on the side of the iPad, but one that uses a very slim USB connector, the same as the one on one or two other thin USB devices. It comes with a standard USB lead that plugs into this to charge the thing, but which is the wrong way around to connect to a USB SD card reader. So, my wife does an entirely logical thing and goes into a camera store to buy a card reader that accepts our camera cards and has the right sort of slim USB connector to fit the iPad. She (and I, and the camera store owner) had absolutely no way at all of knowing that Apple want us to only buy their specific hardware at this point, as there is nothing anywhere that makes this clear when you buy an iPad. The camera store owner is helpful, unpacks the thing, checks with my wife's iPad that it can read photos from the camera card OK and she goes away happy.
As far as we, or the camera store owner, are concerned we're not breaking any rules or laws and haven't purchased (or, in the case of the camera store owner, sold) anything that was counterfeit or illegal. In fact I checked, and the card reader we bought wasn't illegal or counterfeit, it just wasn't made by Apple. As far as all involved in this transaction were concerned a USB device had been purchased and it worked.
Apple then chose to brick this device a few weeks later, without warning, during an iOS update. They didn't brick it because it was counterfeit. They didn't brick it because they were providing support for it (it's just a USB memory device, so uses open USB standards). They bricked it because it wasn't made by Apple.
That is, to me, an unacceptable practice, and is why I will never, ever buy another Apple product. Had they given a warning, or made it clear that only Apple manufactured USB accessories would work with their products, then that would have been fair enough; we could have chosen to buy the iPad and accept that we had to only ever buy Apple accessories, or buy something else. The fact is that they didn't do this, they just did what FTDI have done an bricked something not made by them when it was plugged in.