>>So was the expectation that OS2 would destroy Ms.
>>Interesting conjecture, but just that.. conjecture.
I don't remember OS2 being expected to destroy MS. I remember MS and IBM cooperating over the upcoming OS2 and then Windows got released and swept the field.
But in any case, your sophist device seems intended to stifle discussion, since by this logic everything is conjecture. What's not conjecture is that Google and now Apple are coming out with new UI features and inter-connectivity stuff to give native apps free access to features that used to need a browser. Example: "deep linking."
http://readwrite.com/2015/01/29/deep-linking-button-urx-sdk-now-hot
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
