>My kids, now in the early to mid-teens, have grown up with Apple as the dominant phone, tablet and watch platform. All their friends have them. Here in the US

>My kids, now in the early to mid-teens, have grown up with Apple as the dominant phone, tablet and watch platform. All their friends have them. Here in the US (NY metro), Android seems a second rung system. Apple exploits in-group bias among teens. This is less of a 'we moved to a closed ecosystem' and more of a 'my kids do whats kool among teenagers'. At the end of the day, the hardware and software are near clones of Androids. This is a move away from computers sure, but it doesnt have to do with closed stores. It has to do with insecure teenagers trying to be popular. > Even on the cheap Windows laptops we have for them at home they’re not really “Microsoft” machines. No Office, no heavy O365 anything. They’re terminals for Chrome and web-apps. But that is often how it starts. One day you need to run something locally, and you learn how the OS works. You learn about folder/file structures. You edit settings, you might even need to upgrade hardware. At worst I can see the future be phones/tablets/laptops logging into an external server to do 'computing'. You still will be accessing programs and data on the computers with lots of control. Isnt that the point?