I swear there has to be a conspiracy driving everything to the iPhone-featureless-hardware + *Cloud*-all-the-things + nickel-and-dime paradigm. It can't be that customers are really this... helpless.
Well, if all the new models are made out of shit, when your old phone goes and you need a new one you have to buy a shit phone. Your purchase then goes into a graph in a presentation that shows that people really love holding shit, because why wouldn't they be buying it? Meanwhile, almost all competition for non shit products has been completely reduced and everyone except the execs hates almost every product that exists. Presentation giver gets a bonus