The idea of OS convergence is starting to take a hold in the world and major companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Canonical are working hard to achieve it. There seems to be a race going on and all the players want to reach the finish as soon as possible. All the companies mentioned above have software products that run across a number of devices, but they all face the same problem. The developers are forced to make different products for each of those platforms, even though they try to achieve the same thing at the base level.