> Oddly enough I don't blame the manufauctures. Us the consumer are willing to bend over and take this crap, so why shouldn't they shovel it to us? Weird state

> Oddly enough I don't blame the manufauctures. Us the consumer are willing to bend over and take this crap, so why shouldn't they shovel it to us? Weird statement, having in mind that these same manufacturers likely used every dirty trick known to man to reduce competition just so they can eventually sheep-herd people into their closed ecosystems. Which is actually exactly what happened. Now there's no competition and they can feed us 2 features per year. It's not like there are alternative phone OS-es, or alternative smartphones for that matter. (And please don't mention FairPhone or SailfishOS; they are very much not up to the task.) IMO every adult should take for a fact the assertion that corporations can and do work 24/7 to tilt the table and to rig the game. Doubting this is... a really alien view, one that does not align with our collective knowledge of what the human race is capable of -- and ignores numerous historical proof as well.