Highly relevant comic (although it's quite outdated now)
Apple has Books, Pay, Wallet, Store, App Store, One, and TV. All they’re missing is Cast and Go!
And then there's Intel which literally reused numbers for its Xeon series so you have to check the chipset/socket type otherwise you could be 10 years off.
And then there's RAM where vendors will put numbers like "3600" after say 2400Mhz RAM because it's that product's series number but knows full well that it's also a common clockspeed. You'd think they're just trying to trick you and do an upsell to fools but sometimes they also go the other way as well. I don't think they realize how confusing it is
So yeah, Google isn't doing that bad
This is why I’m so reluctant to look into modern TVs. The quality on my mid-range 2014 Sony is pretty average at best by today’s standards, but at least it’s not smart enough to know what I’m watching and has no network connectivity.
This also means I can’t easily control it with a smartphone without something like Logitech Harmony which is just awful in UX, but still… it can’t track what I’m doing on the TV either.
2) Apple does not create apps for other platforms as a source of profit. They have never done that. To guess that they would do that now is a gigantic leap in logic.
And paid support for all Google consumer services.