So maybe I misunderstood your sentence fragment, which I took to mean you were saying that my comment applied not just to Apple, but to the entire industry. In the absence of a full sentence, I was forced to guess what you meant.

Assuming I am correct in that, I have long held that Apple is a terrible influence on the industry, which often copies the ideas they have that strip functionality from devices while telling users they are lucky not to have such distracting features. The first time I noticed it was when I suddenly could not find a phone that didn't have the features that are central to a phone--start and end call buttons. You could argue that an insistence on using finishes that make it almost inevitable a phone will have a short lifespan is an extension of this--refusing to find a good design that doesn't have this flaw, while convincing users they don't want to keep their $1000+ phones long enough for them to fully be paid off. Honestly, it pisses me off to be surrounded by so many gullible people and companies, because their influence means the products I want are not available.