If all these products are so low quality, why do they sell? Do all these businesses have monopolies?

Is it possible that we on Hacker news are out of touch with regular users who _prefer_ cloud accounts because they can’t maintain a NAS array to store their own dashcam footage?

Maybe people prefer low cost apps that include ads to higher cost apps without ads?

That said, the subscription pricing thing IMHO is predatory, like gambling.