I wanted to ask for long time this question, Why does this keeps happening?
Apple, Kagi, Vivaldi, news companies and even Google.
I started seeing a good amount of people who stopped caring about consumer rights/freedom and started to think and advocate for companies.
Even in non-brands cases, a lot of people buy the product with the highest price, because they think that it has a higher quality despite the fact that there is no necessary correlation between both.
How do I know that? I know a shop that buy cheap products and sell them with very expensive price tag, to my surprise they are making insane profits.
What is happening?
Stockholm Syndrome?
For example, once you get an Apple product, you get more out of it by buying MORE Apple products. Even if you WANT to get out, all the photos and songs in the cloud will be lost if you switch from Apple, so you just stick with what you got. Besides, Google does similar things, so you might as well stock with the devil you know. You just have to keep hoping that the other side gets shittier faster than yours does.
As for price = quality. We know that higher quality things DO cost more than garbage, but thanks to how easy it is to lie on the Internet, shady dealers are marking up their garbage in hopes that you’ll think it’s higher quality than all the other garbage. I don’t blame the people for this, it’s a con, and those people are being victimized by predators.