They design their pricing structure to have a compelling offering at a series of price points??? Have you called the police?

Yes, they spend tens of millions of dollars designing and building machines they don’t want people to buy, just so they can make a couple hundred more dollars on a different machine. And if the M3 outsells the Pro because most people don’t want to spend $200 for benefits they don’t need, well, that’s, hey, look over there!

Some people care about gaming and doing work / homework. Steam Deck is not a great option for them.

If money’s no object, obviously a steam deck for portable gaming, an M3 Max for productivity / engineering, and a gaming PC with 4090 is the way to go.

With Garmin you pay €19.99 for this per month

With Garmin you pay ~$20/mo for a very different service. I use inreach to send and receive text messages to family when I'm offroading. I can send them locations I'm at, casual chats, and check in that I'm OK.

I fully expect Apple to offer these same things soon, but for now inReach has a different value prop that's a lot better.

Side loading is the new USB-C, which was the new Stage Manager. There always has to be some huge unconscionable outrage.