It’s amazing how Apple “doesn’t do” anything, but manages to define industry trends over and over again!

That's what brand recognition and brand loyalty (and the money they generate) allows you to do. This is not necessarily a bad thing since it forces other competitors - who like to artificially limit their products - to actually get of their greedy asses and compete.

Yeah which is why... Unified memory on Chromebooks and android devices as well as surface pro serve the same purpose.

It's marketed as an upsell by apple because it's an advantage of ARM but many people will never care to learn what that means