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Of course, as that's where the money and power is, the only things SamA is in it for.

There will be equivalent models that are free. Likely, there will even be free ones without ads.

Free+ads can beat free without ads on pure incumbency, marketing and convenience. Most people don't use an adblocker, even though it's trivially easy to install.

Paid, however, can't beat free+ads. Too much friction.