[mls-pl]

And main difference with Apple is that you don't have to log in to their services on iPhone yet still have full _phone_ functionality.

[cowl]

the keyword being _phone_, not smartphone. Bambulab too will let you print from SD card without logging in their infra, they are just locking the rest of the ecosystem. 1 to 1 analogy.

[mls-pl]

It's still a smartphone - with web browsing, mail and everything else what's available out-of-the-box. And Bambu will cut out even local network access and, as they stated in "Terms of Use", can lock print jobs until you update firmware. Far from 1:1 analogy...