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[Mr Skrunts]

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.


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[tigers_gonads]

Wanna buy a iPhone 

[Mr Gav]

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

It`s primarily a bank thing, the little symbol on your card tells you whether your card is capable or not and although there is apple iPay there are still a lot more terminals for cards than phones.

And while you`re right about ipod connectivity for car radio`s they all play mp3`s now so will connect to any media player, it`s just that the ipod is more popular.

[Mr Skrunts]

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

It`s primarily a bank thing, the little symbol on your card tells you whether your card is capable or not and although there is apple iPay there are still a lot more terminals for cards than phones.

And while you`re right about ipod connectivity for car radio`s they all play mp3`s now so will connect to any media player, it`s just that the ipod is more popular.

Why dont they just make them all and class them as USB 2/3/Micro/mini etc.   

[Mr Gav]

Because anything with " iPhone/iPod compatible" sells 

Just look at the hooha when the latest iPhone or watch is released, because people are sheep they queue up to give their hard earned away as soon as Apple release anything.

[Lazydocker]

Just a slight correction... Any terminal capable of taking contactless payments can take iPay as well, subject to a firmware update It is whether the company being paid have upgraded their subscription to include it that decides

And Android have similar systems but the banks won't back it because the Android handsets are less secure

[TheBoy]

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

It`s primarily a bank thing, the little symbol on your card tells you whether your card is capable or not and although there is apple iPay there are still a lot more terminals for cards than phones.

And while you`re right about ipod connectivity for car radio`s they all play mp3`s now so will connect to any media player, it`s just that the ipod is more popular.

Why dont they just make them all and class them as USB 2/3/Micro/mini etc.   

Because proper iPod integration makes it easy to use, rather than 100,000 tracks across 100s of folders....  ....in the same way an iPod is easier to use than a generic MP3 player.