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They also did say ‘software’.

Your monitor has software, as does basically everything built lately significantly more complicated than a fan.

The topic is around stickiness of software.

What does your monitor have that make it sticky?

Television screens do have sticky features, my rule applies there too.

To clarify this: Closed Source Proprietary software is fine as long as it is easily interchangeable/inter-operable with similar competing software.

My fan is quite advanced. It has "night" and "natural breeze" modes, for example, and it was the cheapest one at Costco last year.