And yet, almost all those brands are either loved, or massively used. People make lines for days to buy iPhones, Amazon's Prime is universally loved, nothing, not DuckDuckGo, Bing, is remotely close to Google search feature-wise.
Social media is a chapter apart, but even in their case, Republican and Democrat leadership hate them for completely different reasons, and neither can stop being hooked to it.
Jeez, take twitter temporarily away from a MAGA today, and they're crying a ing river.
As far as being greedy companies, I completely agree with you, but I think that's not what Frosty was pointing at, I think he was talking about muh censorship and the like.