Android versus Windooooz...
m$ (aka m@ke$$h!t) is only for one reason... 30 years ago IBM was too lazy to develop an OS for something (PC, XT, AT and Co.) they thought would only be a couple years worth fluke and therefore couldn't be bothered to develop an OS themselves...
by the time they realized their mistake, the beast was lose and became the 800 pounds gorilla of the software market...

did IBM miss out on the PC market altogether?
not quite; for nearly 15 years they were the number one "personal system" seller until...
until they realized that the PC had run its course and was going to the technological junk yard and...
liquidated their PC division

7 years later, PC gone?
well, i own two desktop replacement laptops, a nettop... and a pocket computer ¦-))))
dead? not yet, but let's be realistic, the heydays of the personal computer are gone.
especially at the workplace (the primary market for IBM, btw.) BBs, iPotatos and Android devices are used more and more instead of computers... to basically... communicate.

• phone calls
• SMSes
• e-mail
• chat
• social media

all from one and the same device...

that Maemo (nearly) was precursor in the integration (why did those early samples miss GSM !?! ) be noted btw...

and m$?
well, they became the 800 lb gorilla only because... T-Rex let it run.
now, Android occupies the mobile device market and m@ke$$h!t... will never get more then crumbles... until they disappear.

btw, funny that both 30 yrs ago and today the rotten potato company was an early adopter and implementer of the technologies... but failed to conquer the market. last time, they kicked Steve Jobs out and nearly went bankrupt... who will save Apple this time???