Raising Tech: Exploring the Laptop Boundaries – Premium

Late last year I wrote a post about exploring the boundaries of technology with my daughter and trying to find the right balance between letting technology help with education but also not letting it overwhelm her at the same time.
Which brings us to today, where my child clearly wants to start incorporating technology more into her life and as the parent, I (or we, with my wife) try to find the right balance.
My daughter has now fully mastered the Apple TV and can turn it on, find a show, start it up, and entertain herself without our intervention. This is more of a blessing as she can choose her own shows but we have also made it clear that she has to ask to use the TV as well. And on the same front, she also knows how to use a Surface Pro, open Netflix, and again, find her shows and how to yell at Alexa to start playing the Moana soundtrack for the 15th time on any given day.
We have also started to explore the boundaries of typing and engaging with the PC. Up until this year, her only interaction with a device was via touch input, but keyboarding is a skill kids still need to learn as I don't see a keyboard disappearing anytime soon from the computing landscape.
We have, on several occasions, showed her how to open Notepad and play around with entering letters. Seeing as she is in the early to middle stages of learning how to read, I feel that teaching her how to type words will help with reading. And of course, playing in Paint is always allowed.
We are still staying away from smartphones but she is now acutely aware that some phones do have games and you can watch videos on them as well. So far, we have managed to keep her from asking 24/7 "can I play with your phone" which we hope to hold off for as long as possible. At the dinner table, and especially when out to eat, our phones are away.
Earlier this month, her school had a 'coding camp' that was an introduction with age-appropriate activities for this skill-set. It mainly focused on pattern recognition and linear control input but it was a fun activity that the entire family enjoyed. The problem, though, is that these devices only work with iOS and Android hardware; they don't make an app for the PC.
Which is a point of frustration as I don't really want to buy an iPad but I suspect we will be forced to in the near future. The lack of quality, educational apps, for the Windows ecosystem is becoming painfully apparent. Even simple flash card style apps, Apple and Google have won in this space and it's going to be quite tough for Microsoft's tablets to compete in the home against these devices.
The point of this post is more thinking out loud than anything else. I'm curious what other parents are doing in this space as it's a delicate step forward each time as there is no going back. Yes, as parents we can set the ground rules, but once a child knows how to operate a device and what it is capable of, you can't un-teach that.
As we move forward, it will likely be a slow drip...