Who's been dicked here?
The government. That's why they are complaining (according to the summary).
because most of the PRC bottom tier model lack galvanic rust protection.
Is that really true?
Apple created the different OSes for different use cases that, Apple thought, required different user interfaces.
There is no reason why applications which choose to implement both types of interfaces can't do so. There's also no reason why users should be limited to one type of interface or the other. Both things coexist completely peacefully on Android. You can connect a mouse to your tablet (or even phone) and treat it like a desktop system with shitty storage (practically all phones, it takes a lot of power to have fast storage.)
People forget that tablet computers existed a decade before the iPad, it's good for certain things but creation is NOT one of them.
The primary use case for tablet computers in olden times was data entry and acquisition, for example the military used their magnesium-case gridpads to do inventory.
lot of the kids aren't really that technical, so deep subjects (like P vs NP etc) are probably a bit of a waste on them.
I didn't get into P vs NP until my second year of college.
The biggest problem with Apple for users probably isn't any of their anticompetitive shit, but rather their bifurcated OS. Software which could be sold on both platforms is commonly only on one or the other. Tablets have enough screen and enough power to do real PC jobs but are prohibited from doing them because Apple wants to sell you both an iPad and a Macintosh. Android-based tablets can run emulators to get around these problems, or run full apps which can run on ARM Linux in Termux or another solution. TBF Google seems to have Apple envy and is aiming to lock down their systems more and not less so maybe they will throw away this advantage.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. -- George Wald