[Pamar]

I may concede that it can perform “adequately at a lower price point” (I use Google myself when I am not in my hometown), but the parent wasn’t talking about price.

[eru]

I went off the phrase "A machine can indeed do a better job [..]" and was seeing the price as a big part of that package.

Looks we agree about everything that we actually made explicit. The disagreement was about the implicit meaning of whether price was included in the meaning of 'better job'.