Not so many years ago MS put windows on to the public market and made PC's more available which in turn then have become more advanced, a heck of a lot faster but most importantly a lot cheaper.
One of the problems that crept in was a war between internet browsers, mainly internet explorer and netscape. My view was simple, MS suplied a whole package and offered addons, so we got windows, with so called apps (for the sake of a description) to write, draw, play and use the internet etc.
So Netscape starts the battle, and if I have the story right (which knowing me could be completely wrong) tried to get thier browser bundled in to windows.
If I am right , then even all those years ago we had the freedom and the choice to choose which browser we wanted to use.
Above is just an example of my point.
Today we have apple pushing thier brand in our direction, Hifi and car steros all adapted to conect and control the Ipod etc
The war/battle is now Apple/Android and in some cases windows as O/S on phones and tablets.
Yes we have Windows and Linux and other PC OS (But not android PC's (or am I wrong)
Calulators became available when I was at school in the 70's, but but now 3 year old's are taught on PC's, I just learnt that a 22 year old I know can type accurately at probably 180 WPM on his S6 but all his schooling days they never sussed out a way to help him write, he cant even sign his name.
Now contactless payment is the next thing, seems to be an Apple based thing.
I am sure there are more Android based devices in this country but why the heck do companies push Apple devices and try to make our choices for us.
R A N T over
