In my case I wanted a damn SD card slot. And more than 2 years of security updates.
I mean, if I was the mosad guy planting a deal with samsung, I wouldn't even name the app "AppCloud"
heck, why would you even make it appear to the user?
this is a classic competitor-bashing article -- no substance, only hand-wavy "this guys bad!"
I'm guessing this can be traced to others like xiami/huawei/etc who definitely want to get samsung's slice of the market there
But yeah, presumably in the cheaper markets the Candy Crush whales are subsidizing the phones. Like with Windows these days. Anyway time to go back to playing Fortnite and Marvel Rivals