I’m sure other manufacturer’s would build iPhones if they could.
But they can’t so they have to compete against other manufacturer’s in the Android marketplace.
So…Are Android phones cheap because they’re unprofitable, or are they cheap because direct competition actually incentivizes those companies to control costs?
Maybe the question you should be asking is: “Are iPhones really worth the ballooning price?”
Using bots to replace users-lost-to-protest has always been the goal. All that matters is that the numbers go up.
This is good for the sale (IPO).
Twitter had the same plan–keep counting bots. Elon (or some advisor on his team), rightfully argued this point and eventually it lead to a lawsuit, that was then settled out of court.
Google and facebook have been selling “ad impressions” of questionable human-ness for decades. None of these sites have any real incentive to find out how many bots are on their platform.
When they released CS1 it was in a similar state.
The difference is that nobody was paying attention to CS1 until after a couple patches were released and the game picked up momentum as it was improved and more fleshed out.