Google and Apple. You know, companies that teens love, adults love, and kids enjoy. Google is your best friend for homework, and its phone's operating system, Android, has a plethora of apps, not to mention numerous OEMs. Apple is the company that creates high-end and easy-to-learn products. They charge you a premium for their products ($2,000 for a MacBook Pro, everyone!). Apple is one of the few companies that doesn't have to do anything to be cool, it just is cool. Many people think that Apple is the cool one, while Google is considered to be your best friend for homework. What about Microsoft? Surely you know who I am and wish you didn't know. Microsoft is the company that consumers rejoice in when one of their products fails. Windows, their widely used computer operating system, was completely messed up when Windows 8 was released, according to infuriated customers. Windows Phone 8 seems too simple and stumbles when it comes to apps. Bing, Microsoft's search engine, can't compete with the mighty Google or, as I like to say, Scroogle. Internet Explorer is ignored by millions of people due to its slow, jitter-inducing, hair-pulling nature. Accidentally click the obnoxious blue "e" and you'll be sitting in front of your computer for twenty minutes, waiting for it to slowly load. Xbox, Skype and Office are considered the only decent products left, but even those are starting to falter. And then there's Microsoft itself. After Bill Gates handed the CEO over to Steve Ballmer, all hell broke loose as humans raged against him. During Microsoft's first twenty years, they were considered an evil monopolistic empire, destroying all competitors that came their way. Back then, if you wanted word processing software, you used Office. Do you want a computer or... half of paper... an important part in our daily life. Yes, students can choose a MacBook Pro or Air instead of a PC, even a Chrome Book, but for students looking for cheap computers (trust me, there are thousands) I bet they will choose Windows 8 or Windows 7 portable. Then there's the work. You have to help your boss by typing, printing and copying over 6,000 crucial documents. Good luck typing, let alone printing, from your little iPhone or Android phone! As for tablets, it's a pain to find printers that are compatible with them. Honestly, who can say, "The PC industry is over. It's all mobile from here on out," when you can barely find iPad-compatible printers? When it comes to work, smartphones and tablets simply don't have the features or power to handle tasks like these. Desktop and laptop computers do, and that's why they aren't going away anytime soon.