Lorenz0

...Well, yes it does sound pretty ridiculous, but they'd be within their rights - and if the product had always worked that way, and be marketted that way, particularly so. Other text editors are available after all.

And making the MS analogy relevant, you would still be able to print the files to your tamagotchi printer - by right clicking/ dragging & dropping etc. Alternately, the tamagotchi printer corporation could author their own software that allows you to launch and use MS word documents...

lets say we're talking cars.

The device is the engine. Every apple device or 'engine' comes with a free 'car' to put it in... you know, to make the owning experience as smooth as possible. The car costs money to make and maintain, but you are given it for free, because you buy apple machinery.

Lets say you buy a new palm engine... You can't just stroll up and ask for a free apple car to put it in - you need to go and ask your palm manufacturer for one of theirs.

Hmm...

I'm pretty sure that the first film was set pre apocalypse.... There was ice-cream and holiday retreats...

A degenerating society true, but that in itself would be an interesting setting...