What was won, exactly Consider a world without Android, in which the new, dominant computing platform is an Apple monoculture far more locked down and exclusio

What was won, exactly Consider a world without Android, in which the new, dominant computing platform is an Apple monoculture far more locked down and exclusionary than Microsoft ever dreamed of being in their desktop heyday. Maybe Android is not ideal, but life tends to involve a lot of messy choices. The fact that they are messy doesn't mean that there aren't still important distinctions to be made.