Why pay for AI apps on Android when so many free options exist?

If you've spent any amount of time on social media lately, you'll find hundreds of snobbish posts and threads declaring you behind the times if you dont have at least a dozen AI apps installed on your phone. Most of the flagship Android phones come packed to the brim with a suite of generative AI tricks just think of the marketing schemes behind the Google Pixel 8 and Galaxy S24, while Apple gears up to add its own share of tools this fall.