There's a big problem where the default photo apps on your phone push cloud storage with dark patterns that defeat most people. Then third party apps that don't do that will eventually rug pull you with ads or paywalls - probably just greed but my tinfoil hat tells me a non-zero number of these are done to undermine the concept of third party apps in general. At the very least the "automatic updates are always on" system is designed to aid these kinds of scams.
There's a big problem where the default photo apps on your phone push cloud storage with dark patterns that defeat most people. Then third party apps that don't do that will eventually rug pull you with ads or paywalls - probably just greed but my tinfoil hat tells me a non-zero number of these are done to undermine the concept of third party apps in general. At the very least the "automatic updates are always on" system is designed to aid these kinds of scams.
All of that pales in comparison to the lack of SD cards on flagship phones. That was done singularly to force people to rely on cloud storage.