They could and sometimes make a relatively small amount of money, but it’s more about trying to legally protect their trademarks/intellectual property as I understand it. These days I’d much rather support an indie dev over a shitty “AAA” company for sure, tired of them price gouging people for games that aren’t even that good.
That’s super weird, I’ve had like half a dozen Xperias and never encountered this issue. Hope you can get it figured out, they’re usually great phones. Sorry I wasn’t able to be more helpful. Might be they patch whatever bug may be causing it soon too though, they’re usually pretty quick/good about updates.
Because they didn’t think it through? Plastic is a pretty good choice of material: It doesn’t interfere with radio, it is impact resistant, it’s light, and it’s inexpensive.
They were also easily replaceable back then!
Actually, now that I think about it, Apple started the trend and Samsung copied them, so let’s blame Apple!
There’s another one for photographers, pixelfed I think?