Google wants to control everything.
They already own Android and now have gotten entrenched in the apple system.
If they can't ensure that their platform is, and remains, stable, there needs to be a truly viable alternative.
We had the same thing ALMOST happen to us.
My wife wanted a couple more resin patio chairs and saw that they were on sale for $20.00. She put them on her normal list and when she went to pay the total was $100.00 more than what it was supposed to be.
She took the chairs off of her order and...