I still don't understand those. I paid god damn 1200 euro for this phone. Why am I seeing ads for shitty apps?

Because the stock market demands eternal growth. They've already sold phones to half the planet, they know you won't pay 1300 euro next year, and now they have to find more creative ways to show growth.

Because 2% more money is %2 more money and exec compensation is often based on fairly short term performance.

How long is short term? Jobs has been dead for 9 years.

That’s the thing when chasing the market wants: it’s always short term though it’s over a long term.

Because as someone paying 1200 euro for a piece of hardware that you don't control, you deserve to be treated like someone not in control.

At least they are not actively blackmailing you (yet).

This comment is written in a very aggressive way, but if you read it from another angle, the point still stands. My family buys Apple _because_ that way they lose control over the device. They trust that Apple will control those devices better than they would, it's one less thing to think about.

The ads parent is seeing are not actually for shitty apps (as long as Apple does a decent job in app curation). They are part of the customer delight strategy, by making customers think "Cool, I didn't know my phone could be used for that".

Because Apple went to trash after Jobs.

Because you paid $1200 for a device that doesn't allow you to run arbitrary software.