Good to see your thoughtful and realistic response. But I will still point to the way the two surviving OS's are not so interoperable with each other, and a se

Good to see your thoughtful and realistic response. But I will still point to the way the two surviving OS's are not so interoperable with each other, and a sealed slab is mainly not just the embodiment of planned obsolescence, but disposable electronics by intention. Apple really doubled down as an anti-reuse/anti-recycling company along the lines of Microsoft's influence. The experience from horses to cars is a good amount of accurate hindsight, and it was only the early adopters who got cars for quite some time. I would say some equivalence is like with the older technology horse the rider could go places the car never will be able to, but the car did get people where most wanted to go and that's where the roads were because people were already going there. What really did it was getting there faster and the stimulating feeling of speed like never before. With the iPhone it was bigger more flexible screen real estate and the stimulating ability to "watch TV" anytime on a device you were going to carry all the time anyway. Once the mainstream saw what the early adopters were doing there was nothing but envy until they were doing it themselves. Maybe one thing to agree about settling for is the initial neglect for the environmental effect of both transitions.