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The real question is not "who pays for what" but "how is the profit divided up". It's perfectly reasonable for carriers to pay for advertising IF Apple's price to them recognizes that. If Apple pays for advertising then probably their price to carriers is higher. The real issue is who gets how much profit - pure and simple. The "how" is merely a distraction.

The current HUD systems have one really problematic "feature" - they do NOT work with polarized sunglasses. These sunglasses always have their polarization set to eliminate glare reflections from the road  (either shine on it or reflection from water). Unfortunately, the HUD system reflects off the inside of the windshield and so if filtered out too.

I'd love to have a solution but for the moment I've switched mine off (the sunglasses are prescription and I don't have non-polarized ones).

Bummer.

A thought about TouchID vs. FaceID: iPhones are very personal and each person has his/her own while iPads are shared somewhat more often. TouchID allows multiple users while FaceID is limited to exactly one. Perhaps that's part of the reason iPads have stayed with TouchID? Cost is also a factor I suspect.

The answer is simple: I trust Apple and I do not trust Dropbox.

The TechCrunch piece has an insightful comment that points out that the difference really is just a side effect of market share, and isn't "loyalty" at all. 

You can think of it this way. You have a theoretical population of ten million iOS owners and 100 million Android owners. If one million iOS owners switch to Android that's 90% loyalty. And if five million Android owners switch to iOS than that's 95% loyalty. So at the end of the year, iOS has 14 million users and Android has 96 million. 

Does the "loyalty" number actually reflect Android's long-term prospects if the trend continues? Or does it give a false impression?