Small country town with literally two high schools, across the road from each other. If one school fell behind in something - they just shared.
My generation in that town was forced to use either Dell pieces of poop (Mmmm pentium 4), or apple iMac G3's.
We had two high schools next to each other, both forced by contract to use the one supplier only.
Catholic college had to use Apple, the government one had to use Dell.
Us aussies had invented wifi back then, but it wasnt commercially available - so no laptops or ipads in that era.
What this meant is the catholic college kids grew up using apple and it's all they knew, while the public school kids grew up using windows.
Oh, except that the catholic college had to send their kids over to our school to break use the dells, because the macs couldn't get any spare parts, and were not compatible with the early online systems and word processing apps of the era the government required.
This was pre-wikipedia, pre google, pre wifi... look i'm old. You wanted information? You had to fire up Encyclopedia Britannica, search the info, print it, quit EB, open up... was it still word and office back then? retype it, print it, hand it in. It was rather shite.
So we had one school with working computers and one with MSpaint and CD-ROM drives, but no software - because you had to buy apples approved specialty mac software... which was simply not available, or really highly priced (cheap hardware, expensive software)
So y'know - an entire school forced by contract to use computers that didn't work with any of the required software or systems. Most of the kids from that apple school i still talk to gave up on tech and can't even do a copy paste. Yeah, it's f*cking sad and i wouldn't believe it if they didn't keep asking me for help.
Why does this happen? Because companies give out huge discounts and rebates if you buy into their ecosystem exclusively. Apple will give their stuff out free to schools if it means kids grow up using it, so their parents buy it at home, and they get a lifetime of software purchase income. Once they spend money and find it cant be transferred OUT of that ecosystem, they tend to stick around even longer.
Skipping on the decades, we had 'One Laptop per Child Australia' which of course used the cheapest shittiest laptops out there. These things were under spec and cheaply made - they did technically do what was required for the classrooms but they were fragile, broke easily on their own and the moment the software requirements changed (like adding in a mandated bloated antivirus like mcafee or nortons) they became near useless.
Following that, some schools thought: oh, let's use something EASIER and just get a bulk deal for ipads.
Apple gave huge discounts, locked the ipads into school accounts only with total oversight (so zero resale value, locked and disabled outside the agreed upon apps and initial school accounts)
kids bring em home... find they cant do half what they need. Oh sure they can login to submit their work, but they'd have to do the work on a fully working PC or mac, email it to the ipad , then submit it to the school websites... except half the time they couldnt do that since apple didnt allow apps to share files, and had no file browser.
Every year, they had to buy the new series. If kids broke any the previous year (they're kids, they broke tons) they couldn't be replaced with the original - making classes split between different tech, needing different instructions for the kids.
So that turned fast into every year, every kid in every class needs the new model ipad (i swear we did this with the Ti-8x calculators in my day too) at school prices - and if they managed to keep it working, they couldnt log out of the school account and use it for personal use anyway - and within a few years it'd suddenly stop getting updated apps and become useless for the school approved apps anyway.
My kid's 8, he's been trained (via gaaaaames) to use iOS, windows 7 10 and 11, Edge, chrome, firefox, discord, and basic file browsing/copy-pasting.
Their solution this year? One country wide app that only works on iOS and Android (phone only, no tablet, PC, web browser support) that is a glitchy fucking mess. I'm meant to download homework, print it have him complete it, and upload photos of it.
All I'm saying is that it could very well be a commercial (gamer) product too. I see no reason why my new GeForce should require a kilowatt power supply and a new power connector simply because its designation isn't A-something.
Maybe I would have grown to like it a bit more if we did. We'll never know now. 
