No one is arguing they don't. Our arguement is apple does the same.
My argument is that EVERY publicly traded tech company does the same thing. As I have stated many times. They ALL are about one thing. MONEY. they don't care about you, your privacy, your well being, health or anything about you. They care about how they can squeeze every cent from your wallet without you figuring out that's what they are doing.
Apple are the masters at this because they have a crack marketing team that knows how to cloak all of this in baby farts and rainbows. The others don't have the same marketing team so they are "evil" or the "bad guys". Once you figure this out and accept it, life becomes much easier and choosing products based on YOUR budget and needs as opposed to what Company "X" tells you you need.
For example, I bought a samsung watch ultra for 849 dollars cdn, had it one day, found out 1/2 the features I wanted on the watch don't work with my pixel phone. I returned it and I am going to be buying a gard pro ultra. All the same features I want in a durable titanium case for 159.99 cdn. Why? because they are not samsung or apple who can charge those wacky prices and get away with because of fanism. The sensors on the gard are just as accurate as the big brands. My wife is getting the guard pro health for her watch. Same thing goes.
As for phones, our next phones are going to be motorla stylus-esssss.
🙂 Why? because they have everything we want in a phone, plus more for 1/2 the price of our current pixels. Plus, we get better battery life, an active stylus, a phone that can take a drop since it's plastic with vegan leather on the sides and back, and has a camera that is very comparable to what's available from the big brands. Are they cool? Nope. Are they hip? nope. Are they awesome? hell yeah.
I would be gone full linux if I could run affinity suite natively on it. Alas, I can't so I am stuck with windows.
I do enjoy my iPad, it's an amazing piece of tech, even as the "junky" 10th generation (all tech youtubeers told me it is, and say not to buy that one)...it's serving me great. iPadOS finally got a decent file management and windowing system baked in so that is a bonus. I will use it till it dies. Then, It will probably be replaced with a cheap android tablet that gives me stylus support and decent keyboard with trackpad accessory. Why? because I use my tablet is mostly a note taking device and e reader content machine. The iPad is completely overpowered for my use case. I know my son who has autism will ALWAYS have an iPad because that's what he is used to.
As I have said many times. Stop listening to APple marketing and Techfluencers (most are paid by apple, samsung etc to tell you what you want to hear instead of the truth). Oh and benchmarking does not mean a roll of beans to acutal use of devices. They are synthetic workflows that have nothing to do with real world work. It's all designed to make you think you need this or that.
