Sameer Samat, president of Android ecosystem at Google, asked a TechRadar journalist why they were using an Apple Watch, iPhone, and MacBook:
I asked because we’re going to be combining Chrome OS and Android into a single platform, and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these days and what they’re getting done.
Ah, so there’s a grain of sense in this. Shame about the aggressive irony in whinging about tone while throwing dull insults.
The money to be made on operating systems was power over platforms, back in Windows 98 times. That’s the whole reason the Xbox project emerged. They wanted to PC-ify consoles on the assumption they’d still own PCs. The project succeeded! The assumption, not so much.
I think MS barged its way into browsers because it already owned the desktop, and browsers were the next big thing, and barging was just how they did things. And they only integrated IE in the sense you could not uninstall it. Windows obviously still ran Netscape (and later Firefox), and the OS needing a browser is vastly different from the OS being a browser.