It&#x27;s the other way round: the extra stuff is there as &quot;market differentiation&quot; in order to justify the high prices and prevent commoditisation. The problem is that if you&#x27;re selling a commodity the price ends up close to the marginal cost of production. Whereas every company wants to have some unique IP they can charge monopoly rent prices for, like Apple.<p>Same with vendor crapware on phones and PCs. I call this stuff &quot;value subtracted software&quot;.